Hamburg

Date

17 April 1942

Target

Hamburg, Germany

Force dispatched

173 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

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) →