Herne

Date

13 March 1945

Target

Herne

Force dispatched

317 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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) →