Hamburg

Date

3 February 1943

Target

Hamburg, Germany

Force dispatched

263 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

184 airmen in this archive died on 3 February 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 George Chirrey Adam (27)
• Sergeant John Caldwell Adam (28)
• Pilot Officer John Methven Robertson Adams (34)
• Pilot Officer Ralph Leonard Alexander
• Sergeant James Allan (22)
• Sergeant Francis Frederick Allen (23)
• Flying Officer Peter Clyde Astrosky (28)
• Sergeant Eric Atkins
• Flying Officer Stanley Maurice Austin (20)
• Sergeant Francis Louis Ayley (24)
• Sergeant Wilfred Eric Baker (22)
• Corporal Albert Arthur Baldock (27)
• Flying Officer Clive Ronald Murray Bell (22)
• Sergeant Frederick George Bell (25)
• Flying Officer George Charles Bellman (20)
• Sergeant Robert John Bennett (24)
• Sergeant Cecil James Berwick
• Pilot Officer Clifford Robertson Black (33)
• Flight Lieutenant William Andrew Black (23)
• Pilot Officer Kenneth Howard Blincoe (33)
• Sergeant Frank Arthur Boese (22)
• Sergeant James Trueman Bostock (21)
• Sergeant Jack Brown (19)
• Flying Officer Frederick Buchanan

See all 184 who died on 3 February →

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