Bochum

Date

12 January 1945

Target

Bochum, 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

53 airmen in this archive died on 12 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.

• Sergeant John Alexander (25)
• Pilot Officer William Edward Archer
• Flight Sergeant Ian Donald Blackie (20)
• Flying Officer William Frederick Bridgman (23)
• Pilot Officer Robert Campbell Carnegie
• Pilot Officer Harold Allen Carruthers (24)
• Flying Officer Harry Dean Christie (27)
• Pilot Officer David Grenfell Cotter
• Flight Sergeant Maurice Michael Culhane (19)
• Warrant Officer Edgar Jack Datson (21)
• Flying Officer Geoffrey Day (23)
• Pilot Officer Fernand Walter Dobbs
• Flight Lieutenant James Edward Donoghue (24)
• Pilot Officer Guy Rerenui Dunlop (28)
• Flight Sergeant Lawrence Thomas Dwyer (26)
• Leading Aircraftman Basil Ralf Etheridge (23)
• Flying Officer Mervyn George Fife (25)
• Pilot Officer James Firth (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Neville George Gilmour (28)
• Flying Officer Miles Carson Grant
• Pilot Officer Geoffrey William Ham (21)
• Flight Sergeant Peter John Hill (22)
• Flight Sergeant Claude Harold Hudson (22)
• Sergeant Sidney Bertie Kerley

See all 53 who died on 12 January →

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