Aachen
23 December 1943 — Aachen
- Date
- 23 December 1943
- Target
- Aachen, Germany
- Force dispatched
- 16 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
190 airmen in this archive died on 23 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.
- Sergeant John McLean Adamson (21)
- Flight Sergeant John Carman Atherton (30)
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Henry Badkin (21)
- Sergeant Harry Barber (40)
- Flight Sergeant Roger William Basey (20)
- Flying Officer Kenneth William Baxter (23)
- Flight Lieutenant Lawrence Howe Bear (28)
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Albert Beech (21)
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Robert Bilbow
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Frederick Billenness (42)
- Sergeant Eric Birchall
- Pilot Officer Edward John Blackley (22)
- Flight Sergeant Robert Meredith Bond (22)
- Sergeant Leslie Frederick Bostock (22)
- Sergeant Harry Bowles (19)
- Flying Officer Frederick Clifford Boyce (23)
- Flying Officer William Bradley (27)
- Leading Aircraftman Harold John Brailsford (27)
- Sergeant John Walker Brewster
- Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart Brown (20)
- Sergeant Vincent De Paul Brown
- Air Mechanic William Browne
- Flight Lieutenant Alister Whyte Buchanan (32)
- Sergeant Cornelius Burgess
See all 190 who died on 23 December →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →