Bochum

Date

29 September 1943

Target

Bochum, Germany

Force dispatched

352 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

127 airmen in this archive died on 29 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.

• Corporal Ronald Ainsworth (22)
• Flying Officer Leslie Paul Alexander (31)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Samuel Johnson Alexander (39)
• Flight Sergeant Clarence William Anderson (26)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class John Andrews (20)
• Sergeant Edwin Atkinson (20)
• Pilot Officer Neville George Bailey (31)
• Flight Sergeant Wesley Glenn Bailey (21)
• Flying Officer Leslie Treloar Baker (28)
• Flight Sergeant John Hamilton Barr (32)
• Sergeant Vivian Herbert Bartlett
• Flying Officer Kenneth Herbert Beames (32)
• Flying Officer William George Bellinger (21)
• Sergeant John Anthony Geoffrey Billingham (20)
• Corporal William Henry Blakeley (23)
• Sergeant David Robert Booker (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Alan Booth (20)
• Air Mechanic Willem Botha (22)
• Pilot Officer William Raymond Brant
• Sergeant Charles Gage Braund (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Graham Watson Browne (20)
• Leading Aircraftman John Francis Campbell (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Raymond Walter Carreck (38)
• Corporal Brian Maurice Casson (31)

See all 127 who died on 29 September →

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