Recklinghausen

Date

20 March 1945

Target

Recklinghausen

Force dispatched

153 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

73 airmen in this archive died on 20 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.

• Flight Lieutenant Frank Percival Adlam (29)
• Warrant Officer Harold James Arney (29)
• Flying Officer Lindsay Page Bacon (21)
• Pilot Officer Leonard Earl Baxter
• Warrant Officer Class I Andrew Paul Bell (21)
• Flying Officer Richard Stewart Bennett (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas Stafford Benedict Bracey (25)
• Corporal Ian Bremner (25)
• Flying Officer Alfred Errol Brown (25)
• Flight Sergeant Lawrence Joseph Bull (20)
• Pilot Officer Victor Robert Campbell (30)
• Pilot Officer Hilton Mackay Carter (22)
• Flying Officer Harry Stewart Chatto (25)
• Flying Officer Charles Alan Cobern (28)
• Flight Sergeant John Stewart Coster (20)
• Flight Lieutenant John Dennis Cottman (21)
• Warrant Officer Robert Courtney (40)
• Flying Officer Lionel Charles Croucher (22)
• Flying Officer Ronald George Dawson (27)
• Captain Dickson (22)
• Flying Officer Douglas Nugent Donald (23)
• Flight Sergeant Donald Murray Easton (20)
• Pilot Officer Charles Alvin Elliott (20)
• Flying Officer Leslie Albert Ellis (21)

See all 73 who died on 20 March →

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