Wuppertal

Date

13 March 1945

Target

Wuppertal, Germany

Force dispatched

354 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

62 airmen in this archive died on 13 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.

• Flying Officer George Jeffery Austin (22)
• Lieutenant Badenhorst
• Flying Officer Bruce Ernest Barrow (20)
• Pilot Officer Robert Douglas Albert Becker (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Louis Blondeau
• Flight Lieutenant Henry John Bray (26)
• Sergeant George Alexander Cain
• Flying Officer Manoel Callas (27)
• Warrant Officer Class I Stephen Gordon Campbell
• Warrant Officer James Bowes Cossart (21)
• Pilot Officer Raymond Gavin Crisford (29)
• Flying Officer James Paul Farrell (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Harry John Fowler (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Murray Macdonald Gardner (28)
• Flight Lieutenant John Percival Garrard (32)
• Corporal Charles Henry George
• Warrant Officer Class II Floyd Eugene George (20)
• Flying Officer Edward Franklin Gilbert (26)
• Leading Aircraftman Arthur James Gilder (38)
• Warrant Officer Class I Walter Gill
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas E. Gorringe (23)
• Flight Sergeant Cyril Thomas Hall (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Alfred Haywood (25)
• Flying Officer Geoffrey Winslow Hess (29)

See all 62 who died on 13 March →

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