Frankfurt

Date

18 March 1944

Target

Frankfurt, Germany

Force dispatched

846 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

186 airmen in this archive died on 18 March 1944 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.

• Sergeant Thomas Hutchison Allan (22)
• Flying Officer Charles Reginald Allen (31)
• Sergeant Benjamin Edward Ansell (21)
• Flying Officer Edson Gilroy Armour (27)
• Warrant Officer Richard Francis Badman (30)
• Sergeant Leslie Harold Baldwin
• Pilot Officer Robert Elmer Ballentine (22)
• Sergeant Larry Howard Jesse Barr (32)
• Pilot Officer George Alexander Bonnar (29)
• Sergeant Denis James Brotherton (21)
• Sergeant Robert Harry Bryan
• Warrant Officer Joseph Y. Burke (21)
• Flying Officer Ernest Herbert Butler
• Sergeant Clelland Mackenzie Campbell
• Pilot Officer Leslie Cannon (31)
• Sergeant Henry William Clapinson (36)
• Sergeant Roland Clewer (22)
• Sergeant Winston Pescod Clough (19)
• Flying Officer Thomas William Cooper (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Walton Cornwall (41)
• Sergeant Walter Cotton (22)
• Sergeant George Crabb
• Sergeant Bertram Crosby (20)
• Sergeant Ernest Crossthwaite (21)

See all 186 who died on 18 March →

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