Kassel

Date

6 January 1945

Target

Kassel, Germany

Force dispatched

11 aircraft

Sortie details (which aircraft from which squadron, which crew flew, the outcome) will populate this page once the TNA AIR 27 squadron-diary importer arrives.

The fallen

83 airmen in this archive died on 6 January 1945 or the day that followed. For a raid of this kind these are overwhelmingly the night's losses, though a death-date match is not by itself proof an individual flew this operation.

• Warrant Officer Sidney Edward Abrams
• Flight Lieutenant Bernard Mortimer Adilman (27)
• Flying Officer James Allan
• Flying Officer Richard Bruce Anderson (22)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class John Frederick Bartholomew (19)
• Flying Officer Leonard Ralph Belcher (31)
• Warrant Officer William Francis Boughey (24)
• Pilot Officer Frank William Bradley
• Flying Officer Harry Patrick Breier
• Flight Sergeant Douglas Harold Brown
• Pilot Officer William Edward Burcher (22)
• Pilot Officer Norman Arthur Butler
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Peter Hixon Cain (19)
• Flight Sergeant Donald Fletcher Campbell (25)
• Pilot Officer Albert Spencer Blair Campton (29)
• Flying Officer Charles John Clarke (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Mayo Clarke (23)
• Warrant Officer Cecil Gordon Dear (23)
• Flying Officer James Richard Donald (22)
• Flying Officer Norman Kenneth Dunlop (21)
• Flying Officer Stewart Wallace Elgie
• Sergeant David Fell (24)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Cecil Maurice Field (19)
• Flying Officer Colin Kelvin Flockhart (20)

See all 83 who died on 6 January →

Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →