Rheine

Date

21 March 1945

Target

Rheine

Force dispatched

178 aircraft

Aircraft lost

5

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

94 airmen in this archive died on 21 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)
• Flight Lieutenant William Donald Allies (30)
• Warrant Officer Harold James Arney (29)
• Pilot Officer Frank Martin Ashworth (24)
• Pilot Officer Leonard Earl Baxter
• Flying Officer Richard Stewart Bennett (20)
• Corporal Ian Bremner (25)
• Flying Officer Alfred Errol Brown (25)
• Flight Sergeant Barry Stewart Browne (20)
• Flight Sergeant Lawrence Joseph Bull (20)
• Warrant Officer Royston Richard Cameron (25)
• Pilot Officer Victor Robert Campbell (30)
• Pilot Officer Hilton Mackay Carter (22)
• Warrant Officer Trevor Kevin Casey (21)
• Flying Officer Harry Stewart Chatto (25)
• Squadron Leader Francis Frederick William Chitty
• Flight Sergeant John Stewart Coster (20)
• Flight Lieutenant John Dennis Cottman (21)
• Flying Officer Lionel Charles Croucher (22)
• Flying Officer Ronald George Dawson (27)
• Flight Sergeant James Dempsey (20)
• Flying Officer Douglas Nugent Donald (23)
• Flying Officer Jack Wilfred Dorrell (25)
• Flight Lieutenant John Philip Duggan

See all 94 who died on 21 March →

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