Aachen

Date

26 September 1943

Target

Aachen, Germany

Force dispatched

10 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

259 airmen in this archive died on 26 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 Harold Ackroyd
• Flying Officer John Philip Adam (30)
• Flight Sergeant Wilfred Ernest Allison (21)
• Sergeant Albert Victor Andrews (21)
• Wing Commander John Chilton Archer (26)
• Flight Sergeant John Edward Griffiths Aston
• Pilot Officer Stanley Kyle Atkinson (20)
• Flying Officer Justus Clifford Austin (24)
• Lieutenant Bagg
• Flight Lieutenant Keith Todd Balding (27)
• Sergeant Archibald Robert Bangs (19)
• Pilot Officer Malcolm James Banks (25)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Arthur Barber
• Pilot Officer Barker (20)
• Sergeant Arthur Mallinson Barnes (35)
• Flight Sergeant Gerald Victor Bartle (23)
• Air Mechanic John Begg (65)
• Flight Sergeant John Henry Benny
• Sergeant Douglas Lowain Bick (23)
• Flying Officer Donald Sutherland Bier (26)
• Flight Sergeant Christopher Kevin Bolger (28)
• Warrant Officer Cecil Jack Walton Boone (23)
• Flying Officer Charles Royce Booth (23)
• Flight Sergeant Irvine Charles Randolph Bowden (27)

See all 259 who died on 26 September →

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