Abbeville

Date

17 April 1943

Target

Abbeville

Force dispatched

37 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

293 airmen in this archive died on 17 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)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Herbert Chipman Amero (27)
• Pilot Officer Harald Roy Andersen (21)
• Sergeant Ronald Claude Anderson (19)
• Sergeant Steve Archie
• Sergeant James Henry Aspden (29)
• Sergeant Donald Keith Atkinson (20)
• Flight Sergeant Dennis Axtell (22)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Henry Baker (28)
• Sergeant Charles Glendinning Bamford (19)
• Sergeant William Watson Bannatyne
• Sergeant Herbert Rhys Barnes (21)
• Pilot Officer Herbert William Barnett (27)
• Sergeant John Alec Bates (22)
• Flight Sergeant Roy Beaven (22)
• Sergeant John Courtney Bell (29)
• Sergeant Kenneth Kirby Bell
• Sergeant Albert Warren Berry (22)
• Warrant Officer Class II Roland Birchall (20)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Sidney Bird
• Sergeant John Sydney Blackburn
• Flight Sergeant Peter Leonard Boase (20)

See all 293 who died on 17 April →

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