Wilhelmshaven

Date

28 April 1943

Target

Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Force dispatched

305 aircraft

Aircraft lost

7

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

246 airmen in this archive died on 28 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 Clifford Abbott (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II James Gordon Acker (21)
• Flight Sergeant James Victor Agate
• Sergeant James Arthur Laurence Allan (29)
• Sergeant Thomas Arthur Allen (20)
• Flying Officer Leslie John Ashburner (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Ronald Hugh Ashton (23)
• Sergeant John Frederick Atkins (22)
• Pilot Officer Cyril Rene Balcer
• Sergeant Raymonde Derek Balfour (19)
• Sergeant Eric Frank Banks (32)
• Sergeant Ronald James Barton (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Gordon Frederick Berridge
• Flying Officer Charles John Bickham
• Leading Aircraftman Byard Broder Black (47)
• Flight Sergeant Eric Stuart Blake (26)
• Sergeant John Albert Bolton (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Ian Numa Bonard
• Sergeant Arthur William Bond (21)
• Sergeant Charles Henry George Boxall
• Lieutenant Jeremiah Louis Ronald Hartley Brent
• Flight Sergeant William Leslie Fred Brian (23)
• Sergeant Archibald William Brighurst (30)
• Pilot Officer Denis James Brown (22)

See all 246 who died on 28 April →

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