Magdeburg

Date

17 January 1945

Target

Magdeburg, Germany

Force dispatched

85 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

33 airmen in this archive died on 17 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 Bruce Albert Atkinson (24)
• Squadron Leader Hedley Beattie
• Flight Lieutenant Terence Douglas Blewett (26)
• Warrant Officer Class I Hugh Conway Blizard (21)
• Flying Officer John Henry Crone (21)
• Lieutenant Currie (21)
• Air Corporal De Beer
• Flight Sergeant Bruce Thomas Devall (23)
• Flying Officer Colin Cuthill Gibson (30)
• Air Mechanic Hiatt (32)
• Leading Aircraftman Frank Arnold Jaques (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Oliver Jenkins (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Stanley Sackville Jenkins (33)
• Air Mechanic Jordan
• Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Kitchen (27)
• Lieutenant Klatzkin (32)
• Flight Lieutenant Leslie Allen Leeming (30)
• Flying Officer Graham Murray Lumsden (26)
• Flying Officer Merlin Leigh Matkin (21)
• Flying Officer Terrance Valleau McKee (24)
• Air Mechanic McLoughlin (22)
• Flying Officer Andrew George Patterson Newman (24)
• Flight Sergeant Roy Thomas O'Reilly (23)
• Flight Sergeant Roderick Philip Quinn (32)

See all 33 who died on 17 January →

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