Hamburg

Date

8 April 1942

Target

Hamburg, Germany

Force dispatched

272 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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

115 airmen in this archive died on 8 April 1942 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.

• Captain Charles Henry Adcock (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Charles Eric Arnold (26)
• Squadron Leader Kenneth Ault (26)
• Leading Aircraftman Otto Bay (50)
• Sergeant Harry James Beck
• Sergeant James Charles Alfred Bell (28)
• Sergeant Patrick Bourke (23)
• Flying Officer Roderick Kenneth Bourne (28)
• Leading Aircraftman Selwyn Fitzgerald Bradley (26)
• Sergeant Eric Clement Bratt (22)
• Flying Officer Geoffrey Shuttleworth Burgan (25)
• Sergeant Eric Coleman (20)
• Pilot Officer Fernand Albert Hegisippe Conard
• Sergeant James William Cornthwaite (31)
• Flying Officer Harold Leslie Croydon (26)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick Isaac Davies
• Sergeant Douglas Delbert Dean (20)
• Sergeant John Cecil Dennis (21)
• Pilot Officer Harold Dickinson (24)
• Flying Officer Alexander Watt Donald (20)
• Sergeant Desmond Walter Dowling (19)
• Pilot Officer Robert James Dyer (27)
• Sergeant George Keith Eckersley (23)
• Sergeant Aubrey Harold Edwards (22)

See all 115 who died on 8 April →

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