The Peenemünde Raid
17 August 1943 — The Peenemünde Raid
- Date
- 17 August 1943
- Target
- The Peenemünde Raid
- Force dispatched
- 596 aircraft
- Aircraft lost
- 1
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
367 airmen in this archive died on 17 August 1943 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 Alfred Ramsay Aldridge (22)
- Flight Sergeant David Colin Brodie Angus (31)
- Sergeant Horace George Ansell (21)
- Sergeant Oswald Morgan Atkins
- Sergeant Herbert Charles Baker
- Flying Officer Stanley Alfred Baldwin (27)
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd Marshall Banks (21)
- Flying Officer Charles Lawrence Barbezat (34)
- Sergeant Sydney Barnes
- Sergeant Tom Brown Barrie (21)
- Sergeant Joseph Henry Bassett (20)
- Flying Officer Harold Ockenden Batchelor (22)
- Sergeant James Dennis Bates (21)
- Leading Aircraftman Lionel Kendall Bates (22)
- Flight Sergeant John Martin Batterton (23)
- Flight Sergeant Eloi Joseph Emile Beaudry (20)
- Flight Sergeant Harold Beaumont (23)
- Pilot Officer William Edward Beavo
- Sergeant Leonard Alan Bell (20)
- Sergeant George William Bentley (20)
- Flight Lieutenant Walter Henry Bewg
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Roy Biggs (33)
- Flight Sergeant Winston Woolley Blackmore
- Flight Sergeant Ian F. Blair
See all 367 who died on 17 August →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →