Hildesheim

Date

22 March 1945

Target

Hildesheim

Force dispatched

130 aircraft

Aircraft lost

4

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

68 airmen in this archive died on 22 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 John Lawrence Adams (23)
• Flying Officer Reginald Arthur Henry Allen (23)
• Flight Lieutenant William Donald Allies (30)
• Pilot Officer Frank Martin Ashworth (24)
• Flight Sergeant Harry James Boyd (22)
• Flying Officer Wilfred Henry Brooks (21)
• Flight Sergeant Barry Stewart Browne (20)
• Warrant Officer Royston Richard Cameron (25)
• Warrant Officer Trevor Kevin Casey (21)
• Squadron Leader Francis Frederick William Chitty
• Flight Sergeant James Dempsey (20)
• Flying Officer Jack Wilfred Dorrell (25)
• Pupil Pilot Colin Douglas (22)
• Flight Lieutenant John Philip Duggan
• Warrant Officer William Richard Flanagan (26)
• Leading Aircraftman Cecil Richard Ford (28)
• Pilot Officer Edward Bruce Forsythe (23)
• Flying Officer Daniel Frame (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Angus McIntosh Fulton (27)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Charles Gibson (20)
• Pilot Officer Bruce Frederick Greenwood (22)
• Flight Lieutenant James Frederick Hadley
• Flying Officer Francis Lawrence Hann (25)
• Leading Aircraftman Bertie Harris (28)

See all 68 who died on 22 March →

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