Recklinghausen
15 January 1945 — Recklinghausen
- Date
- 15 January 1945
- Target
- Recklinghausen
- Force dispatched
- 146 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
115 airmen in this archive died on 15 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 Sergeant Ronald Wilfred Albrecht (20)
- Flying Officer Jack Karl Armour
- Pilot Officer Robert Joseph Ashley
- Flight Sergeant George Francis Ayre (29)
- Flying Officer Douglas James Bailey (23)
- Flying Officer Lindon Frederick Beves Barrett (22)
- Flying Officer Lloyd Joseph Berry (22)
- Flying Officer William Robert Binning (24)
- Flight Lieutenant William Fleming Borrett
- Sergeant Peter Charles Brown (21)
- Pilot Officer Joseph Aloysius Bruggeman (21)
- Flight Lieutenant Ernest Patrick Burke (33)
- Flight Sergeant Graeme Ernest Charles Burton (19)
- Corporal Alan Buxton (25)
- Flying Officer Clyde Willis Byers (21)
- Pilot Officer Arthur Grattan Carolan (22)
- Pilot Officer James Marshall Carter (32)
- Flying Officer William Merton Chapman (23)
- Warrant Officer Laurence Collins (20)
- Flying Officer Donald Connop (30)
- Flying Officer George Richard Robert Henry Craib
- Warrant Officer Class I Robert King Crow
- Pilot Officer Benjamin Robert Cunliffe (25)
- Pilot Officer John McIntosh Davidson (19)
See all 115 who died on 15 January →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →