Nuremburg

Date

27 August 1943

Target

Nuremburg

Force dispatched

674 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

293 airmen in this archive died on 27 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 William Walter George Addison (21)
• Flight Sergeant Billie Albert Anderson (23)
• Warrant Officer Harold Anderson (23)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Arthur (25)
• Warrant Officer Leonard Wilson Aspden (22)
• Sergeant Donald John Atkinson (19)
• Sergeant Douglas Bailey
• Flight Sergeant Martin Bailey (27)
• Flight Sergeant Peter Chadwick Bartle (29)
• Sergeant Benjamin Joseph Barton (23)
• Pilot Officer Francis Wilson Bateman (27)
• Sergeant James Andrew Beck (23)
• Sergeant Robert Peter Belsey (20)
• Corporal Frederick George Bennett (26)
• Sergeant Wendelin Bernard Bettin (27)
• Sergeant Kenneth Jack Bevis (22)
• Corporal Frank Bickers (27)
• Flying Officer Alfred John Birtles (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Philip Henry Blampied
• Sergeant Stanley George Bond (20)
• Flight Sergeant Donald George Booth (19)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Nelson Bowler (22)
• Pilot Officer Augustine Brannigan (29)
• Flight Sergeant Cyril Jack Bridger (26)

See all 293 who died on 27 August →

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