Sterkrade

Date

24 March 1945

Target

Sterkrade, Germany

Force dispatched

177 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

81 airmen in this archive died on 24 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.

• Flying Officer Lorne Raymond Aljoe (21)
• Flying Officer William Anderson (25)
• Flight Sergeant Norman Hanson Ashworth (28)
• Flight Lieutenant John Benjamin Barnes
• Pilot Officer William Keith Bennett (23)
• Pilot Officer Leonard Frank Branston (20)
• Pilot Officer Lawrence William Brennan (31)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Rupert Bruce (24)
• Warrant Officer Class II James Ewart Bunn
• Flight Lieutenant Arthur Henry Burr
• Flying Officer Bernard Arthur Burrows (21)
• Flight Sergeant Ambrose Arthur Chapman
• Warrant Officer James Alexander Chapman (26)
• Lieutenant Chegwyn
• Squadron Leader William Ritchie Christison (26)
• Pilot Officer Clarence Leonard Cofield
• Flight Lieutenant Cooper (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Gordon Couldrey (28)
• Flying Officer Ian Rees Cowan (22)
• Flying Officer Charles Ian Cox (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Leonard Francis Day (26)
• Captain De Jager
• Lieutenant De Klerk
• Second Lieutenant Doble (24)

See all 81 who died on 24 March →

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