Schweinfurt

Date

24 February 1944

Target

Schweinfurt, Germany

Force dispatched

734 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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

351 airmen in this archive died on 24 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 Frederick James Abery (34)
• Flight Sergeant Robert William Airey (19)
• Pilot Officer William Latham Alder (20)
• Sergeant Kenneth Allen (32)
• Sergeant William Ebenezer Allen
• Warrant Officer Class II George Albert Andrews (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class George Thomas Arden
• Flight Sergeant Leslie Noel Atkinson (29)
• Flying Officer Anthony Azzopardi
• Flying Officer Eugene Herman Barbet (23)
• Flight Sergeant Alfred John Barnett (20)
• Flight Sergeant Percival Valentine Bashford (24)
• Sergeant Henry George Basten (21)
• Sergeant William Scott Beevers (18)
• Warrant Officer Class II Bell (21)
• Warrant Officer Class I Earl Theodore Bell (29)
• Sergeant William Henry Bell (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Harry Bennett (40)
• Sergeant Victor Bennett (20)
• Pilot Officer Herbert John (jack) Benson (22)
• Warrant Officer Class II George Henry Bentinck (21)
• Pilot Officer Norval Bergland (22)
• Pilot Officer Bertil Wilfred Bergquist (22)
• Warrant Officer Class II Hector Frederick Binder (33)

See all 351 who died on 24 February →

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