Operation Augsburg raid
17 April 1942 — Augsburg
- Date
- 17 April 1942
- Target
- Augsburg, Germany
- Force dispatched
- 12 aircraft
- Aircraft lost
- 7
Narrative
Daylight low-level raid on the MAN diesel works at Augsburg by 12 Lancasters of 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn and 97 Sqn. Squadron Leader John Nettleton of 44 Sqn was awarded the Victoria Cross for leading the raid.
Squadrons: No. 44 Squadron (Rhodesia) · No. 97 Squadron (Straits Settlements)
Order of battle
12 aircraft. Each crew links to the men who flew it; each airman to their own record.
The fallen
128 airmen in this archive died on 17 April 1942 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 Sergeant Edward George Alexander (20)
- Sergeant Charles Walter Allen (26)
- Sergeant John Charles Hinton Allen (21)
- Sergeant Ronald Sydney Andrews (21)
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Carleton Austin
- Pilot Officer Gordon Baker (27)
- Corporal Frederick Charles Barnes (29)
- Sergeant Lawrence Heaton Baxter (23)
- Pilot Officer Richard Glendenning Beard (20)
- Pilot Officer John Frank Beckett (22)
- Flight Lieutenant Archibald Augustus James Beer (49)
- Sergeant Richard Lewis Bilton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Booth
- Flight Sergeant Wilson Draper Burd (21)
- Sergeant Clifford McCormick Carkner (25)
- Flight Lieutenant William Deryk Castello (22)
- Second Lieutenant Patrick James Chapman (21)
- Sergeant William Waddell Chapman (30)
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Alfred Christ (22)
- Sergeant Harold Cliffe (20)
- Sergeant Alfred Raymond Clouston (20)
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Henry Coles (27)
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Thomas Douglas Collins (24)
- Air Pupil William C. Collyer (19)
See all 128 who died on 17 April →
Source: Augsburg raid (Wikipedia) →