Stettin

Date

16 August 1944

Target

Stettin, Germany

Force dispatched

348 aircraft

Aircraft lost

13

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

118 airmen in this archive died on 16 August 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.

• Captain Allen (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Joseph Louis Baillargeon (25)
• Pilot Officer Thomas Lloyd Baker (20)
• Flight Sergeant Bruce George Harold Robert Bean (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Harry Bean (28)
• Pilot Officer Edwin George Beard (21)
• Pilot Officer Bernard Bercuson (28)
• Pilot Officer Keith Thomas Bielby (19)
• Pilot Officer Forast Deloise Billingsley (24)
• Flying Officer Dalton Irvon Block (20)
• Flying Officer Albert Milvron Bonney (22)
• Pilot Officer Kenneth George Boucock (19)
• Pilot Officer Robert Richardson Boyce (29)
• Flying Officer Harry Vern Boyle
• Pilot Officer Frank Bradley
• Warrant Officer Class I Brandsma (24)
• Sergeant Herbert Brown (39)
• Warrant Officer Class II Herbert James Brown (19)
• Flying Officer Leonard George Brown (30)
• Warrant Officer Dennis Cecil Burman (23)
• Pilot Officer Gordon Van Allen Butchart (29)
• Flight Lieutenant Maxwell Boyd Calhoun (20)
• Pilot Officer Daniel Newton Carter (28)
• Pilot Officer Joseph William Carter (23)

See all 118 who died on 16 August →

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