Hattingen

Date

18 March 1945

Target

Hattingen

Force dispatched

100 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

47 airmen in this archive died on 18 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 Paul Hector Adam (21)
• Sergeant John Edward Aldridge (24)
• Flying Officer Richard Henry Appleyard (30)
• Flying Officer David Malcolm Armstrong (20)
• Warrant Officer Class II Ralph Murray Baker (22)
• Flight Sergeant Alexander Banks (19)
• Flight Sergeant George Robert Bond (26)
• Flying Officer Ross Malcolm Botting (22)
• Sergeant Phillip James Brett (31)
• Pilot Officer Geoffrey Seymour Browne (20)
• Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth (26)
• Flying Officer Harold Chauncey Byrd
• Corporal Nicholas Coghlan
• Pilot Officer Selwyn George De Vis (21)
• Flying Officer Adrian West Essex (22)
• Flight Sergeant Anthony Henry Edward Floyd
• Flight Lieutenant Brian Kenneth Levinge Fuge (28)
• Flight Sergeant Llewellyn William Grant (24)
• Flying Officer Ernest Hayes (21)
• Leading Aircraftman George Leslie Hayward (24)
• Pilot Officer Lloyd George Hinch (22)
• Flying Officer William Ivan Holmes (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Maurice Leonard Hunt (24)
• Flying Officer Frederick Hansell Irwin (22)

See all 47 who died on 18 March →

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