Saarbrücken

Date

13 January 1945

Target

Saarbrücken, Germany

Force dispatched

160 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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

96 airmen in this archive died on 13 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.

• Flying Officer Victor Robert Adams (19)
• Sergeant John Alexander (25)
• Sergeant W R Askew
• Flying Officer Alan Edwin Astill (24)
• Flight Sergeant Leo Ronald Barnden (21)
• Flight Sergeant Ian Donald Blackie (20)
• Flying Officer Wyman Alexander Booth
• Flight Sergeant William Edward Boutcher (21)
• Flying Officer William Frederick Bridgman (23)
• Flight Sergeant Warren Henry Butt (21)
• Flight Sergeant Allan James Casey (23)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Leon Alfred Chauvin (21)
• Flying Officer Nicholas Chobaniuk (25)
• Flight Sergeant Donald Kenneth Clark
• Flying Officer Kenneth Alan Cook (21)
• Pilot Officer David Grenfell Cotter
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Jack Crowhurst (20)
• Flight Sergeant Maurice Michael Culhane (19)
• Warrant Officer Edgar Jack Datson (21)
• Sergeant R Davies
• Flying Officer Geoffrey Day (23)
• Flight Lieutenant James Edward Donoghue (24)
• Flying Officer Robert Joseph Dubeau
• Flight Sergeant Lawrence Thomas Dwyer (26)

See all 96 who died on 13 January →

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