Abbeville
13 April 1943 — Abbeville
- Date
- 13 April 1943
- Target
- Abbeville
- 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
150 airmen in this archive died on 13 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 Vernon Roderick Ager (19)
- Sergeant Leslie Ronald Akehurst (23)
- Sergeant George Geoffrey Ambler (19)
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Arthur Applegate (20)
- Flight Sergeant James Francis Austin (20)
- Sergeant Albert John Bailey (22)
- Flight Sergeant Edward Henry Bakeman
- Squadron Leader Donald George Elmore Ball (21)
- Flight Lieutenant James Greenwood Banford (27)
- Flying Officer Anthony Edgar Buchanan Barnard (21)
- Sergeant Richard Trathen Barrow (29)
- Sergeant Harry Norman Bateman
- Flying Officer Arthur Douglas Baxter (26)
- Sergeant Frederick Vincent Bayford (33)
- Sergeant Jack Beatson (21)
- Flying Officer Hugh Lawrence Beesley
- Flying Officer John Dillon Bishop (25)
- Warrant Officer Class II William Gerald Blight
- Sergeant Ronald Geoffrey Boustead (20)
- Lieutenant Bown
- Sergeant Robert Brough (29)
- Flight Sergeant Brown
- Leading Aircraftman James Gilliam Buchanan (19)
- Flight Sergeant Phillip Fothergill Burroughs (22)
See all 150 who died on 13 April →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →