Hengelo

Date

11 April 1943

Target

Hengelo

Force dispatched

10 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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

204 airmen in this archive died on 11 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.

• Pilot Officer Eric Alexander Allen (22)
• Sergeant Douglas Seymour Andrew (21)
• Sergeant Daniel Thomas Anthony (21)
• Sergeant Norman Frederick Bailey (26)
• Flying Officer Arthur Lowthian Barge (27)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Norman Barley (22)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Francis Leo Baxendale (23)
• Warrant Officer Samuel Nicoll Beckett
• Sergeant Anthony Claude (tony) Beddoe (26)
• Sergeant Joseph Leonin Lionel Belanger (23)
• Flying Officer Dennis Edward John Bint (20)
• Sergeant Cyril Birtles (23)
• Flight Sergeant William Bodley (23)
• Flight Sergeant George Arnold Booth (30)
• Flight Sergeant Arthur Bowers
• Sergeant Thomas Frank Patrick Boynton (33)
• Pilot Officer George Alfred Bozier
• Sergeant George Alan Bristow (21)
• Sergeant Arthur James Brooks (30)
• Flying Officer John Henry Brown (26)
• Pilot Officer Roy Brown (21)
• Sergeant Bernard Stanley George Bugg (20)
• Warrant Officer Class II Robert Montgomery Buie (21)
• Sergeant Frederick Ronald Burton (20)

See all 204 who died on 11 April →

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