Saarbrücken

Date

14 January 1945

Target

Saarbrücken, Germany

Force dispatched

134 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

112 airmen in this archive died on 14 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)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Wilfred Albrecht (20)
• Pilot Officer Robert Joseph Ashley
• Sergeant W R Askew
• Flying Officer Alan Edwin Astill (24)
• Flight Sergeant George Francis Ayre (29)
• Flight Sergeant Leo Ronald Barnden (21)
• Flying Officer Lloyd Joseph Berry (22)
• Flying Officer Wyman Alexander Booth
• Flight Sergeant William Edward Boutcher (21)
• 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 Donald Connop (30)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Alan Cook (21)
• Flying Officer George Richard Robert Henry Craib
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Jack Crowhurst (20)
• Sergeant R Davies
• Flight Sergeant Denham (18)
• Flying Officer Robert Joseph Dubeau
• Sergeant G C Edwards
• Sergeant Ronald Harry Edwards

See all 112 who died on 14 January →

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