Aachen

Date

11 April 1944

Target

Aachen, Germany

Force dispatched

26 aircraft

Aircraft lost

9

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

294 airmen in this archive died on 11 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 James Morton Allan (31)
• Sergeant Peter Edward Andrews (22)
• Sergeant William James Anstey (20)
• Leading Aircraftman James Armstrong (23)
• Pilot Officer John Walter Armstrong (28)
• Pilot Officer Robert Henry Axton (21)
• Sergeant Alfred William Walter Ayres (22)
• Sergeant Georges Edouard Louis Leon Backaert
• Flight Lieutenant Donovan John Bacon (29)
• Sergeant Clive Walter Banfield
• Sergeant Ronald Kenneth (ron) Barlow (20)
• Flight Lieutenant William George Barnes (23)
• Flight Sergeant Alec David Barnett (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Frank Sharpe Barnsdale (23)
• Wing Commander Oswald James Milman Barron (27)
• Flight Sergeant Douglas Richard Beesley (22)
• Pilot Officer David Gordon Bell (25)
• Pilot Officer Stanley Blackburn (23)
• Lieutenant Charles Blanckenberg (23)
• Flight Sergeant John Cecil Bond (23)
• Flying Officer Peter William Booth-smith
• Sergeant Harry Frederick Bottomley (19)
• Flight Sergeant Patrick John Bourke (22)
• Pupil Pilot David Dunleigh Bowen (19)

See all 294 who died on 11 April →

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