Salzgitter

Date

29 March 1945

Target

Salzgitter

Force dispatched

130 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

27 airmen in this archive died on 29 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 Jack Charles Stanmore Agazarian
• Flight Lieutenant William James Anderson (26)
• Leading Aircraftman Albert Bell (27)
• Warrant Officer Harry Bliss (25)
• Sergeant William Alfred Byrd (24)
• Flying Officer Walter John Chittenden (23)
• Sergeant Basil Vivian Clinton (22)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Patrick Thomas Connors (20)
• Flight Lieutenant William George Davis (21)
• Flight Sergeant Michael Gerson
• Warrant Officer William Snowden Gregory
• Corporal John Hardy
• Leading Aircraftman Michael Melville James Hassett (32)
• Flying Officer Raymond Morris Hays (31)
• Sergeant Arthur Wilson Herkess (31)
• Leading Aircraftman Ronald William Hunter (26)
• Leading Aircraftman Arthur Stewart Cody Jenkins (20)
• Warrant Officer Class II William Glyndwa Jones (22)
• Lieutenant Krynauw
• Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Lee (24)
• Corporal Joseph Charles Edouard Georges Morneau (25)
• Flight Sergeant Alfred Leslie Privett (36)
• Flying Officer Neil James Rankin (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Charles Alfred Rogers

See all 27 who died on 29 March →

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