Northern France

Date

17 March 1945

Target

Northern France

Force dispatched

120 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

43 airmen in this archive died on 17 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.

• Warrant Officer Gilmour Sydney Catford (27)
• Flight Sergeant John Donald Davidson (36)
• Flight Sergeant Mervyn Desmond Sylvester Davis (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Frank Edmond Dotten (22)
• Lieutenant George Dunlop
• Corporal Donald Vernon Elliott (23)
• Warrant Officer Ernest Oliver England (25)
• Flying Officer Thomas Edison Farrow
• Flight Sergeant William Henry Fetherston (20)
• Squadron Leader George Herbert Finch (21)
• Pilot Officer Alan William Garnet (23)
• Pilot Officer James Stanley Marks Gibb (22)
• Warrant Officer Jack Dawson Green (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Maurice Leonard Hunt (24)
• Flight Sergeant William Keaton Hunter (21)
• Flight Sergeant James Love Isles (21)
• Flying Officer Jack Dennison Johnston (30)
• Pilot Officer Alfred Churchill Lockyer (23)
• Warrant Officer Maxwell Ernest Margules (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Leo McAuliffe (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Charles Wylie McBride (26)
• Flying Officer Ernest Henry McDonald (24)
• Flight Sergeant Harold Mino (21)
• Flying Officer George Moses (25)

See all 43 who died on 17 March →

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