Mannheim

Date

1 March 1945

Target

Mannheim, Germany

Force dispatched

478 aircraft

Aircraft lost

3

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 1 March 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 Lieutenant George Atkinson (29)
• Air Sergeant Austin (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Harland Trevor Benn (20)
• Pilot Officer Ernest Bertin Boyce (22)
• Flying Officer Clair Patrick Boyle
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Thomas Brown (21)
• Flight Sergeant Rodney Austin Carson (31)
• Flight Sergeant Graham Richard Conley (20)
• Sergeant Edward James Cooper (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Fitton Coward (24)
• Flight Sergeant Hugh Cuthbertson (28)
• Flying Officer Thomas Neville Downes (20)
• Flight Sergeant Robert James Eaton (20)
• Warrant Officer Class II Faull (18)
• Flight Sergeant Walter William Foy (25)
• Flight Sergeant John Michael Gerrard (20)
• Flight Sergeant Albert William Conrad Gledhill (21)
• Warrant Officer Henry Vincent Gordon (26)
• Wing Commander Wilfrith Peter Green (30)
• Pilot Officer Frederick Gwilym Grey (23)
• Flight Sergeant John William Grice (20)
• Sergeant Victor Allen Haglund (26)
• Flight Lieutenant Jeffrey Howard Holmes (20)
• Lieutenant Philip Anthony Klapper

See all 46 who died on 1 March →

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