The Augsburg Raid

Date

17 April 1942

Target

The Augsburg Raid

Force dispatched

43 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

128 airmen in this archive died on 17 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.

• Flight Sergeant Edward George Alexander (20)
• Sergeant Charles Walter Allen (26)
• Sergeant John Charles Hinton Allen (21)
• Sergeant Ronald Sydney Andrews (21)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Carleton Austin
• Pilot Officer Gordon Baker (27)
• Corporal Frederick Charles Barnes (29)
• Sergeant Lawrence Heaton Baxter (23)
• Pilot Officer Richard Glendenning Beard (20)
• Pilot Officer John Frank Beckett (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Archibald Augustus James Beer (49)
• Sergeant Richard Lewis Bilton
• Aircraftman 2nd Class John Booth
• Flight Sergeant Wilson Draper Burd (21)
• Sergeant Clifford McCormick Carkner (25)
• Flight Lieutenant William Deryk Castello (22)
• Second Lieutenant Patrick James Chapman (21)
• Sergeant William Waddell Chapman (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Walter Alfred Christ (22)
• Sergeant Harold Cliffe (20)
• Sergeant Alfred Raymond Clouston (20)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Henry Coles (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Walter Thomas Douglas Collins (24)
• Air Pupil William C. Collyer (19)

See all 128 who died on 17 April →

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