Kassel

Date

21 January 1945

Target

Kassel, Germany

Force dispatched

88 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

34 airmen in this archive died on 21 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 George Ingram Allan (43)
• Warrant Officer Anton David Anderson (32)
• Warrant Officer John Edwin Bateup (22)
• Pilot Officer Charles Douglas Beck
• Pilot Officer Noel Thalman Biccard (23)
• Lieutenant Lenard Walter Douglass (21)
• Flight Sergeant Bruce Colin Geeves (31)
• Leading Aircraftman Harley McColl Grove (26)
• Flight Lieutenant Edgar William Hallam
• Flight Sergeant Gerald Burton Hamilton (18)
• Flight Lieutenant William Grayson Huddart (22)
• Flight Sergeant Norman Walter Huggins (20)
• Flight Sergeant James Vincent Jenkins (21)
• Flying Officer Percy Harold Kearse (20)
• Air Vice Marshal Reginald Baynes Mansell (48)
• Corporal Charles Richard Mason (32)
• Flight Sergeant Jack James Lewis McDonell (20)
• Corporal Patrick Stuart Ogden (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Joseph Martin O'Leary (24)
• Captain William Richard Roberts (26)
• Flying Officer Walter Russell (22)
• Flying Officer John Alan Schmidt (20)
• Flying Officer Frank Richard Fisher Skelly (24)
• Flying Officer Matthew Arnold Smith

See all 34 who died on 21 January →

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