Wanne-eickel

Date

4 March 1945

Target

Wanne-eickel

Force dispatched

128 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

148 airmen in this archive died on 4 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.

• Pilot Officer Mark Sylvester Harold Anderson (23)
• Pilot Officer John Melford Atchison
• Flying Officer John Leslie Atkinson (32)
• Flying Officer Arthur John Aust (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Donald James Bassett (26)
• Pilot Officer Ralph Oscar Battler (20)
• Flying Officer Ivan Sydney Baudinette (23)
• Flying Officer Herbert John Beaton
• Pilot Officer Joseph Emile Roland Beaudry (21)
• Flying Officer Pierre Nicholas Bernhart (24)
• Pilot Officer Richard Alan Biggerstaff (18)
• Flying Officer Henry Kenneth Billingsley (31)
• Flight Lieutenant Lindsay Stuart Black (30)
• Sergeant Leonard Boardman
• Flying Officer Kenneth Richard Brook (23)
• Flying Officer Wilbert Alexander Brydon (28)
• 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 Thomas Marnoch Campbell (21)
• Flying Officer Alfred Valentine Cash
• Flying Officer Ronald Edward Oscar Charron (22)

See all 148 who died on 4 March →

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