Hamburg

Date

8 April 1945

Target

Hamburg, Germany

Force dispatched

440 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

70 airmen in this archive died on 8 April 1945 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.

• Flying Officer Robert Ross Anderson Adrain (35)
• Flying Officer Thomas Henry Baulderstone (21)
• Flight Sergeant Lindsay Arthur Bayley (29)
• Flying Officer Vincent Gerald Berriman (25)
• Warrant Officer Class I John Bomby
• Flight Sergeant Anthony Ellis Bowman (23)
• Flight Sergeant William John Brooker (20)
• Flight Sergeant Anthony George Stewart Brunskill (20)
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Stuart Burnett (62)
• Flight Sergeant Herbert Eric Burton (25)
• Flying Officer Royden Leslie Cotnam
• Flying Officer William Gordon Craig (23)
• Flying Officer John Charles Cunningham (35)
• Flight Lieutenant John Currie (21)
• Flight Sergeant Harold Crawford Daer (21)
• Pilot Officer Alfred John Damm (32)
• Lieutenant Dekema (20)
• Pilot Officer Robert Allison Duncan
• Flying Officer Kenneth Valentine Dunning (31)
• Flying Officer Ralph Emerson Featherstone (22)
• Warrant Officer Class II Hugh Alexander Fisher (24)
• Flying Officer Russell Richard Napier Forrest (21)
• Flying Officer William Forrester (20)
• Flight Sergeant Dennis Anthony Franklin (30)

See all 70 who died on 8 April →

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