Brunswick

Date

27 September 1943

Target

Brunswick, Germany

Force dispatched

19 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

326 airmen in this archive died on 27 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 David Maurice Adamson (27)
• Flight Sergeant Wilfred Ernest Allison (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Albert George Stafford Anderson
• Sergeant Clifford Bruce Andrews (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Frank Edward Anstey
• Wing Commander John Chilton Archer (26)
• Wing Commander John Edward Wilberforce Arthur (37)
• Flight Sergeant John Edward Griffiths Aston
• Pilot Officer Stanley Kyle Atkinson (20)
• Flying Officer Justus Clifford Austin (24)
• 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)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Francis Bedford (22)
• Air Mechanic John Begg (65)
• Flight Sergeant John Henry Benny
• Sergeant John Bosworth Beresford (20)
• Flying Officer Clifford John William Bevan (21)
• Sergeant Douglas Lowain Bick (23)

See all 326 who died on 27 September →

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