Bottrop

Date

15 March 1945

Target

Bottrop

Force dispatched

188 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

116 airmen in this archive died on 15 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)
• Flight Sergeant Vincent James Arnold (23)
• Flying Officer Joseph Dixon Ball (20)
• Flight Sergeant Gerard Sydney Barbeler (21)
• Flight Sergeant Raymond Franklin Lindsay Barber (26)
• Pilot Officer Malcolm Melly Barker (19)
• Flight Sergeant Lyle Eugene Bedell (20)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth William Binder (19)
• Sergeant Asrielis Blumbergas
• Pilot Officer Howard Bruce Boddy (33)
• Flying Officer Stewart Millen Bonter (26)
• Flying Officer Clive Arkoll Boulton (21)
• Flying Officer Angus Edward Brechin (20)
• Pilot Officer Mark Webster Bredin
• Flying Officer Kenneth Stickney Brenton (28)
• Flight Lieutenant Edward George Brown
• Pilot Officer Walter Gordon Brown (20)
• Warrant Officer Richard Power Cantwell (20)
• Flying Officer Edmund Bruce Carleton (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Frank Earl Connors (27)
• Flying Officer Roger Leon Corcoran (21)
• Flying Officer Walter Garfield Cunningham (21)
• Flying Officer George Alfred Osborn Dauphinee (24)

See all 116 who died on 15 March →

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