Bochum

Date

17 February 1943

Target

Bochum, Germany

Force dispatched

14 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

107 airmen in this archive died on 17 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 James Storey Aird (33)
• Sergeant Alexander Smith Aitchison (22)
• Sergeant Thomas Johnstone Anderson (25)
• Flight Lieutenant William Armstrong (21)
• Sergeant Norman Clive Beer (28)
• Sergeant Thomas Alfred Berwick
• Leading Aircraftman Harold William Bishop (29)
• Flying Officer Peter James Blanchard (21)
• Sergeant Frederick John Bray (21)
• Pilot Officer Thomas Simpson Briggs (22)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Alfred Budden (25)
• Warrant Officer Edward Trezise Bunt (34)
• Warrant Officer Class II Paul Brewer Campbell
• Sergeant Stanley William Charles Cannell (31)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Henry Caswell (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Frederick Gerald Hudson Chalk
• Flying Officer James Albert Clandillon (28)
• Sergeant John Coaker (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Stuart Gordon Collins (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II James Leslie Joseph Conway (24)
• Warrant Officer Class II Charles Owen Cook
• Sergeant James Muir Cousin (21)
• Sergeant Ralph William Darlington (19)
• Flight Sergeant Ernest John Walter Davis (24)

See all 107 who died on 17 February →

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