Pilsen

Date

16 April 1943

Target

Pilsen

Force dispatched

327 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

341 airmen in this archive died on 16 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 Edward John Ablewhite (21)
• Flying Officer Basil Courtney Abrams
• Leading Aircraftman George Charles Ady (23)
• Pilot Officer Michael Cyriates Anastassiades
• Pilot Officer Harald Roy Andersen (21)
• Sergeant Ronald Claude Anderson (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Edward Leonard Andrews (42)
• Sergeant Steve Archie
• Sergeant Donald Keith Atkinson (20)
• Flight Sergeant Dennis Axtell (22)
• Sergeant Leslie Judson Ayers (24)
• Flight Sergeant Jacques Gordon Baker (21)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Henry Baker (28)
• Flight Sergeant Lawrence William Baldwin (23)
• Sergeant Charles Glendinning Bamford (19)
• Sergeant William Watson Bannatyne
• Sergeant Herbert Rhys Barnes (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Raymond James Barnes (26)
• Pilot Officer Herbert William Barnett (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Cuthbert Roderick Barrett (27)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Alan Barrett (20)
• Sergeant John Alec Bates (22)
• Pilot Officer Albert Henry Bayliss (23)
• Sergeant Ronald Francis Beaumont

See all 341 who died on 16 April →

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