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Date

28 April 1944

Target

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Force dispatched

26 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

257 airmen in this archive died on 28 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 Robert Harold Aiano (20)
• Pilot Officer Oscar Jacob Albrecht (39)
• Flying Officer William Wilson Alexander (26)
• Flight Lieutenant Lawrence Allen (26)
• Leading Aircraftman Arthur Allonby (28)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Amey (19)
• Sergeant William Gowland Anderson (21)
• Pilot Officer James Lever Atherton (32)
• Warrant Officer Class II Arthur John George Barnes (22)
• Sergeant Robert Dennis Parker Barrett (25)
• Flying Officer Edward Bashi (26)
• Sergeant Francis Henry Bathmaker (21)
• Pilot Officer William John Bell (21)
• Sergeant Hubert Francis Benbow (23)
• Pilot Officer William Walter Bigoray
• Flying Officer Robert Johnstone Blake (29)
• Pilot Officer Robert Alexander Booth (26)
• Flying Officer Leslie Walter Bown (24)
• Flight Sergeant James Sydney Bradley (21)
• Sergeant John Vincent Bramhall
• Pilot Officer Harold Arthur Alexander Breeze (26)
• Warrant Officer Class II John Donald Bremner (20)
• Flying Officer Ian Mackenzie Briscoe
• Flying Officer Michael Broadhurst (20)

See all 257 who died on 28 April →

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