Sterkrade

Date

18 January 1945

Target

Sterkrade, Germany

Force dispatched

57 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

13 airmen in this archive died on 18 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 Gordon Alex Boyd (32)
• Air Corporal De Beer
• Flying Officer Colin Cuthill Gibson (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Frank Arnold Jaques (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Robinson Law
• Flight Lieutenant Leslie Allen Leeming (30)
• Flying Officer Graham Murray Lumsden (26)
• Group Captain John Francis Xavier McKenna (39)
• Flying Officer Frank Reid Miller (27)
• Corporal Maurice Meredith Mitchell (27)
• Flying Officer Andrew George Patterson Newman (24)
• Flight Sergeant Jack Stanley Robinson (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Richard Murray Trites (25)

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