Hannover

Date

10 January 1945

Target

Hannover

Force dispatched

50 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

26 airmen in this archive died on 10 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.

• Flight Lieutenant Dudley Edgar Ball (24)
• Sergeant Henry Charles Barr (20)
• Pilot Officer Frederick Earl Bentley
• Flight Lieutenant Samuel Leslie Bowhay (29)
• Leading Aircraftman Barrister John Bush (20)
• Sergeant Thomas Michael Calloway (19)
• Flying Officer David Gordon Crawford
• Warrant Officer Michael Day
• Lieutenant Dodd (21)
• Pilot Officer Clifford Joseph Dunshea (20)
• Warrant Officer Francis Joseph B. Finnerty (43)
• Air Sergeant Walter Freel (44)
• Flight Sergeant Waverley William Harris (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Lance Eric Gordon Henry (30)
• Sergeant Ronald James Hillsdon (19)
• Flying Officer John Edward Kitchen (27)
• Lieutenant Petersen
• Warrant Officer William James Sandercock (29)
• Lieutenant Ian Burton Stretton (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Laurence Gerard Sullivan (32)
• Air Mechanic Thirion (33)
• Lieutenant Truter (26)
• Lieutenant Tweedie
• Flight Lieutenant Walter Ross Vernon (30)

See all 26 who died on 10 January →

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