Mannheim

Date

23 April 1944

Target

Mannheim, Germany

Force dispatched

10 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

304 airmen in this archive died on 23 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.

• Pilot Officer Alexander Achtymichuk (24)
• Pilot Officer William Robert Adlard (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Agnew (29)
• Flight Lieutenant Philip Raymond Aitken (22)
• Pilot Officer Edward Lloyd Alberts
• Sergeant Harry Bain Allan (18)
• Flight Sergeant Russell Allen (26)
• Flight Sergeant Leslie Edward Amos (20)
• Sergeant John Armstrong (36)
• Sergeant Keith Leonard Armstrong (22)
• Flying Officer Borden Bramshott Ashley
• Pilot Officer Percy Ronald Aslett
• Flight Sergeant Harry Aspinall (27)
• Pilot Officer Thomas Edwin Astbury (20)
• Sergeant William George Ault (32)
• Flight Sergeant Herbert Ingle Austin (39)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Bailey (20)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Edward Barnes (22)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick William Barnett (27)
• Flight Sergeant Hugh Barret
• Sergeant Joseph Jean Paul Marcel Bedard
• Sergeant John George Beilby (24)
• Pilot Officer George Robert Berkey (22)
• Pilot Officer Hewitt Elliot Billens (23)

See all 304 who died on 23 April →

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