Leipzig

Date

3 December 1943

Target

Leipzig, Germany

Force dispatched

527 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

222 airmen in this archive died on 3 December 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.

• Warrant Officer Class II George Warburton Acorn (20)
• Flight Sergeant Harold William Addis (21)
• Flying Officer Alexander Gordon Addison (28)
• Flight Sergeant Stanley Ainsworth (21)
• Flying Officer Eric Austin Alliston (20)
• Pilot Officer James Anderson (30)
• Sergeant Norman Thomas Anderson (22)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Jack Argent (20)
• Sergeant George William Arlett (21)
• Pilot Officer Gerald Henry Armstrong (19)
• Pilot Officer Frederick John Baker (21)
• Sergeant Aubrey Herbert Bale
• Leading Aircraftman Arthur Theodore Barnson (21)
• Sergeant Fred Barratt
• Pilot Officer Clarence Herbert Bayram
• Sergeant Donald Jack Bealey (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Frank Bedford (20)
• Flight Lieutenant George Belcher (31)
• Sergeant Donald William Blackman (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Alastair Farquhar Blue (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II William Robert King Boles (23)
• Leading Aircraftman John Harold Bolsworth (19)
• Flight Sergeant John Milton Booth (21)
• Sergeant Robert Arthur Boothman (22)

See all 222 who died on 3 December →

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