Hamburg

Date

22 August 1943

Target

Hamburg, Germany

Force dispatched

47 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

132 airmen in this archive died on 22 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.

• Flight Lieutenant John Theodore Anderton (23)
• Sergeant Luther Arthur Appelt (24)
• Flight Sergeant William Henry Austin (32)
• Pilot Officer Cyril Peter Backlog
• Sergeant Joseph William Bailey (23)
• Sergeant Stanley James Banting (21)
• Sergeant Gideon Barsky (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Benjamin Batty (22)
• Flight Sergeant Norman Garnet Betts (27)
• Flying Officer John Bruce Bowden (23)
• Sergeant Howard Raymond Boys (24)
• Warrant Officer Kenneth Breckon (21)
• Lieutenant John Ian Brener (21)
• Flight Lieutenant John Brownlee (36)
• Leading Aircraftman David Campbell Bryson (23)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph William Burton (23)
• Aircraftman 1st Class William George Butt (35)
• Sergeant Harold Chadwick (23)
• Pilot Officer Fraser Dudley Clark (21)
• Flight Sergeant Irwin James Clark
• Flying Officer James Murdoch Clark (27)
• Warrant Officer Class II William Benzie Forbes Climie (21)
• Flight Sergeant James Geoffrey Collins (25)
• Flying Officer Robert Warren Conway (26)

See all 132 who died on 22 August →

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