Rotterdam

Date

4 April 1943

Target

Rotterdam

Force dispatched

24 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

210 airmen in this archive died on 4 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.

• Flight Sergeant Sidney George Adams (17)
• Sergeant Harold Alford (23)
• Warrant Officer David Thomas Andrew (24)
• Sergeant Eric James Andrew (28)
• Flying Officer Edward Francis Appleton (25)
• Sergeant Frederick Hugh Austin
• Flight Sergeant Frederick William Bacon (26)
• Sergeant Albert Ronald Baker (18)
• Sergeant Christopher Francis (doogie) Ball (20)
• Sergeant Robert Walton Barker
• Flight Sergeant John Alexander Peach Bartlett (21)
• Squadron Leader Anthony Richard Henry Barton (29)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Norman Beaton (22)
• Warrant Officer Class II Walter Stanley Beatty (23)
• Pilot Officer Norman Bertram (32)
• Sergeant Reginald Percival Bilham (21)
• Corporal William Alfred Birch (38)
• Pilot Officer Charles Noola Black (22)
• Sergeant Harold Edwin Blundell (21)
• Corporal Edward John Botfield (26)
• Sergeant Frank Geoffrey Bower (20)
• Sergeant John Broderick
• Flying Officer John Burgess (21)
• Warrant Officer John Benjamin Burrows (21)

See all 210 who died on 4 April →

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