Krefeld

Date

29 January 1945

Target

Krefeld, Germany

Force dispatched

148 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

46 airmen in this archive died on 29 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 Edmund Arthur Adams (28)
• Flying Officer Norman Godwin Baily (31)
• Sergeant Frank Tranter Burgess (22)
• Pilot Officer Leslie John Collinson
• Second Lieutenant Hector Darvell (22)
• Flying Officer Owen Walton Davies (22)
• Flying Officer Douglas Lyle Dewart (21)
• Lieutenant Dick (28)
• Lieutenant Ellis (22)
• Flight Sergeant John Alexander Emerson (30)
• Sergeant Joseph Francis Fitzgibbon
• Flight Lieutenant James Harold Freeman (26)
• Warrant Officer Class II Geldenhuys (19)
• Pilot Officer Frank Henry
• Flight Sergeant Maxwell James Hewett (21)
• Sergeant Earl Lambert Holmes (26)
• Captain Henry Nathaniel Honey (29)
• Pilot Officer Brooks Earl House
• Flying Officer Crawford Lee Johnston (23)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Frank Kaviza
• Pilot Officer Michael Kealey (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Francis George Keefe (28)
• Flight Lieutenant William Warren Lake
• Lieutenant John Lithgow (20)

See all 46 who died on 29 January →

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