Aachen

Date

15 February 1944

Target

Aachen, Germany

Force dispatched

48 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

346 airmen in this archive died on 15 February 1944 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 Jack Adams
• Sergeant Bernard Spencer John Akehurst (20)
• Pilot Officer James Michie Alexander (23)
• Sergeant Basil John Allen
• Sergeant Robert Francis Neil Allison (22)
• Sergeant Alfred Allsop
• Sergeant William Ashurst (21)
• Corporal Robert Hindley Atherton (37)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Leslie Atkins
• Sergeant Eric Auty (19)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Walter Bailey (24)
• Flight Sergeant William Baines (22)
• Flying Officer Gordon Robertson Balcombe (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Raymond Robert Stanley Ballantyne
• Flying Officer Hugh Alastair Yuille Barkley (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Roy Laurence Barnes
• Flying Officer Nick John Baron (29)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick William Bartley (33)
• Flight Sergeant Dennis Leslie Baulderstone (22)
• Flight Sergeant Walter Harold Beere (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Herbert Berry (20)
• Pilot Officer Raymond Cecil Bett (23)
• Flight Sergeant Jean Bernard Herbert Bienvenue (24)
• Sergeant Ernest Bramwell Blair

See all 346 who died on 15 February →

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