Kamen
3 March 1945 — Kamen
- Date
- 3 March 1945
- Target
- Kamen
- Force dispatched
- 234 aircraft
- Aircraft lost
- 16
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
89 airmen in this archive died on 3 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 Richard Joseph Audet (22)
- Flying Officer Arthur John Aust (27)
- Flying Officer Pierre Nicholas Bernhart (24)
- Flying Officer Henry Kenneth Billingsley (31)
- Sergeant Leonard Boardman
- Flying Officer Donald Peter Bradshaw (20)
- Flying Officer Kenneth Richard Brook (23)
- Pilot Officer Patrick John Buckman (23)
- Flight Sergeant Marquis Roland Bullock (22)
- Warrant Officer Class II John William Buttrey (21)
- Flight Sergeant Clyde McCartney Cahill (31)
- Flight Sergeant George Frederick Caley (19)
- Flying Officer Charles Jackson Cameron (31)
- Warrant Officer Class II Lawrence Theodore Chevrier (23)
- Warrant Officer William Sandison Clementson (22)
- Warrant Officer Class II John Corman
- Flight Sergeant Cecil Edward Cox (32)
- Flying Officer John William Coyle (24)
- Warrant Officer John Crawford (23)
- Flight Sergeant Alan Cryer (21)
- Flying Officer William Darlington
- Flight Sergeant Robert Eric Davey (20)
- Flight Sergeant George Edward Davis (20)
- Flight Sergeant Gregory Wills Dixon (21)
See all 89 who died on 3 March →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →