Bergen

Date

28 October 1944

Target

Bergen

Force dispatched

343 aircraft

Aircraft lost

3

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

85 airmen in this archive died on 28 October 1944 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 Archibald Malcolm Charles Alexander (24)
• Sergeant Frederick William Anstey (21)
• Pilot Officer Lloyd Bennett Armstrong (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Edwin Lusk Ashbury
• Flight Sergeant Francis Frederick Austerberry (31)
• Flight Sergeant William Ronald Barber (20)
• Sergeant Harold Arthur Bayliss (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Henri Paul Rogers Begin
• Lieutenant Berry
• Sergeant Walter James Bird (32)
• Flying Officer Richard Francis Boyce (21)
• Warrant Officer John Joseph Boyle (22)
• Warrant Officer Arthur Benjamin Brennan (22)
• Pilot Officer Victorien Armand Gilbert Brochu (22)
• Sergeant Ralph Joseph Bryant (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Edward Carrington Bunting (34)
• Flight Sergeant Lawrence Gordon Calman (24)
• Leading Aircraftman George Henry Carroll (25)
• Flying Officer David Campbell Church (20)
• Flight Sergeant James Edward Cook (24)
• Flying Officer Robert Morse Cooper
• Flying Officer George Arnold Costello (21)
• Flying Officer Lawrence Furby Croft (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Alan Arthur Cropley (23)

See all 85 who died on 28 October →

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