Trier

Date

1 April 1943

Target

Trier

Force dispatched

12 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

72 airmen in this archive died on 1 April 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.

• Sergeant Vivian James Ackroyd (21)
• Sergeant Harold Granville Anderson (23)
• Sergeant Ernest Joseph Ronald Ansell (21)
• Flying Officer Eric Richard Victor Ashcroft (20)
• Sergeant Arthur Eddie Bagley (21)
• Warrant Officer Thomas William Barker (21)
• Sergeant William Geoffrey Barnes
• Sergeant Sidney Brenner
• Flying Officer Ian Crawford Burns (22)
• Sergeant James Edward Callaghan (20)
• Sergeant Peter Leslie Carey (21)
• Sergeant Michael Joseph Cassidy (22)
• Flight Sergeant Philip Clegg (23)
• Sergeant Stewart Colclough (20)
• Flying Officer Stanley Cornforth (26)
• Flying Officer John Allen Cox (31)
• Flight Sergeant Calvin Warren Dahl (20)
• Flying Officer Morris Davies (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Eric Francis Dow (19)
• Flight Sergeant Mervyn Louis Eastgate (23)
• Sergeant Antony Hare Fry (21)
• Flight Sergeant William Donald George (21)
• Sergeant Kenneth George Graham (20)
• Pilot Officer Allan Francis Hakala (24)

See all 72 who died on 1 April →

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