Hannover

Date

10 April 1944

Target

Hannover

Force dispatched

46 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

353 airmen in this archive died on 10 April 1944 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 Harry Abbott (19)
• Sergeant James Morton Allan (31)
• Sergeant William James Anstey (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class John Richard Archer
• Leading Aircraftman James Armstrong (23)
• Pilot Officer John Walter Armstrong (28)
• Pilot Officer Robert Henry Axton (21)
• Sergeant Alfred William Walter Ayres (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Donovan John Bacon (29)
• Sergeant Clive Walter Banfield
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Bernard Bannan (24)
• Sergeant Ronald Kenneth (ron) Barlow (20)
• Flight Lieutenant William George Barnes (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Frank Sharpe Barnsdale (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Alfred Gallagher Barrett (31)
• Wing Commander Oswald James Milman Barron (27)
• Flight Sergeant Douglas Richard Beesley (22)
• Pilot Officer Milton Harold Bender (20)
• Flight Sergeant Jack Bernaldo (27)
• Flying Officer David Louis Biggs (21)
• Flight Sergeant Clive Billett (25)
• Pilot Officer Stanley Blackburn (23)
• Flight Sergeant John Cecil Bond (23)
• Flying Officer Peter William Booth-smith

See all 353 who died on 10 April →

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