Datteln

Date

14 March 1945

Target

Datteln

Force dispatched

231 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

99 airmen in this archive died on 14 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 Joseph Jules Rodrigue Arcand (22)
• Flying Officer Leonard Wilson Armstrong (22)
• Flying Officer George Jeffery Austin (22)
• Lieutenant Badenhorst
• Flying Officer Joseph Dixon Ball (20)
• Flying Officer Bruce Ernest Barrow (20)
• Pilot Officer Robert Douglas Albert Becker (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Louis Blondeau
• Pilot Officer Howard Bruce Boddy (33)
• Flying Officer Stewart Millen Bonter (26)
• Flying Officer Clive Arkoll Boulton (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Henry John Bray (26)
• Pilot Officer Mark Webster Bredin
• Sergeant George Alexander Cain
• Warrant Officer Class I Stephen Gordon Campbell
• Warrant Officer Richard Power Cantwell (20)
• Flying Officer Edmund Bruce Carleton (22)
• Warrant Officer James Bowes Cossart (21)
• Pilot Officer Raymond Gavin Crisford (29)
• Flying Officer Walter Garfield Cunningham (21)
• Flying Officer George Henry Davis (34)
• Flight Sergeant Eric Dwyer (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Albert Gordon Edwards
• Flying Officer Earle Robert Evans (20)

See all 99 who died on 14 March →

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