Kiel

Date

28 April 1942

Target

Kiel, Germany

Force dispatched

88 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

186 airmen in this archive died on 28 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.

• Sergeant Wilfred Agar (21)
• Sergeant William Yarr Alderdice (24)
• Sergeant Eric Annable
• Pilot Officer John William Arthurs (22)
• Flying Officer Richard John Askwith
• Leading Aircraftman Leslie Charles Atkins (26)
• Sergeant Sydney Walter George Avent (21)
• Sergeant Ronald Keith Ayres (21)
• Pilot Officer Valden Leonard Bailey (24)
• Pilot Officer Richard Aubrey Baker
• Corporal Albert Banyard (21)
• Sergeant John Wallace Barber (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Frank William Gouge Barrett (31)
• Sergeant Ralph Batman (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Percival Francis Blackmore (35)
• Leading Aircraftman Stanley Robinson Blakeley (22)
• Pilot Officer Carl Olaf Bodding
• Pilot Officer Ralph Bond (28)
• Sergeant Hubert Allan Booth (30)
• Flying Officer John William Lloyd Botting
• Flight Sergeant Brian Walter Bowman (25)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Cecil John Brice (34)
• Pilot Officer Hamish Peter Brouwer (19)
• Pilot Officer James Bernard Frederick Brown

See all 186 who died on 28 April →

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