Hannover

Date

22 September 1943

Target

Hannover

Force dispatched

711 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

407 airmen in this archive died on 22 September 1943 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.

• Sergeant John Abbott (20)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Edward Adair (23)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Albiston
• Pilot Officer Cyril Thorpe Anderson (28)
• Sergeant James Henry Anderton (28)
• Sergeant John Bruce Atkinson (21)
• Flight Sergeant John George Marcel Aubin
• Flight Sergeant Frank John Austen (20)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Hugh Thomas Bailie (37)
• Sergeant William Bruce Bain (32)
• Warrant Officer Class II Ronald Malcolm Barlow (20)
• Flight Sergeant Michael Godfrey Barrett-lennard (23)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Thomas Bath (34)
• Sergeant Reginald Sydney Bayly
• Sergeant William Arthur Beales
• Sergeant Harold Dennis Bean (22)
• Sergeant Laurie George Bender
• Flight Sergeant John Louis Ward Betson (27)
• Flight Sergeant William Douglas Bickle
• Sergeant George Alfred Bicknell
• Warrant Officer Ralph Bernard Beresford Billows (23)
• Flying Officer William Birdsall (20)
• Sergeant Phillip McLaughlin Birt
• Sergeant Fred Bloss (29)

See all 407 who died on 22 September →

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