Bremen
21 February 1943 — Bremen
- Date
- 21 February 1943
- Target
- Bremen, Germany
- Force dispatched
- 143 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
56 airmen in this archive died on 21 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.
- Corporal Gilbert Henry Aindow (22)
- Corporal Frederick John Allen (29)
- Flying Officer Robert Harvey Annells (26)
- Sergeant Frederick John Armstrong (22)
- Flight Sergeant George Arnold (27)
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Allan Barton (29)
- Sergeant Ivan Harry William Baulf (23)
- Flight Sergeant Warwick Hilson Beaver (28)
- Leading Aircraftman George Albert Bedford (39)
- Sergeant Richard Frederick Bell (21)
- Corporal Ronald Wilfred Biss (32)
- Flying Officer Sydney John Cornes (24)
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Crompton (37)
- Lieutenant Dallamore
- Flight Sergeant Robert Curtis Davie (25)
- Sergeant John Philip Duffy
- Warrant Officer Norman Smith Forrester (33)
- Sergeant Connor Phelan Garvey
- Sergeant Gordon Victor Wilfred Giles (20)
- Sergeant William John Ernest Glenn
- Air Mechanic Gnade
- Sergeant Frederick Gotheridge (29)
- Sergeant Theodore David Griffith (21)
- Sergeant William John Hart (21)
See all 56 who died on 21 February →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →