Witten

Date

18 March 1945

Target

Witten

Force dispatched

324 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

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) →