Darmstadt

Date

23 September 1943

Target

Darmstadt, Germany

Force dispatched

35 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

300 airmen in this archive died on 23 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 John Albert Ainge (23)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Albiston
• Pilot Officer Cyril Thorpe Anderson (28)
• Flying Officer David Maurice Anderson (24)
• Sergeant James Henry Anderton (28)
• Warrant Officer Class II William Henry Arnold (22)
• Sergeant John Bruce Atkinson (21)
• Flight Sergeant Frank John Austen (20)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Hugh Thomas Bailie (37)
• Flight Sergeant Albert William Henry Ballard (34)
• Sergeant Dennis Norman Barker (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Ronald Malcolm Barlow (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Thomas Bath (34)
• Sergeant William Arthur Beales
• Corporal Philip Jack Frank Beer (23)
• Sergeant Laurie George Bender
• Flight Sergeant John Louis Ward Betson (27)
• Flight Sergeant William Douglas Bickle
• Sergeant George Alfred Bicknell
• Flying Officer William Birdsall (20)
• Sergeant Phillip McLaughlin Birt
• Sergeant Malcolm Victor Bloxham

See all 300 who died on 23 September →

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