Augsburg

Date

25 February 1944

Target

Augsburg, Germany

Force dispatched

594 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

307 airmen in this archive died on 25 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.

• Pilot Officer William Latham Alder (20)
• Sergeant Kenneth Allen (32)
• Sergeant William Ebenezer Allen
• Aircraftman 2nd Class George Thomas Arden
• Flying Officer Frank Arthur Arnston
• Flying Officer Anthony Azzopardi
• Sergeant Frederick Cecil Barker (20)
• Sergeant John Skinner Barker (39)
• Flight Sergeant Alfred John Barnett (20)
• Sergeant Leonard Charles Barrett
• Sergeant Henry George Basten (21)
• Sergeant Raymond Leonard Bates (21)
• Pilot Officer Lloyd Stuart Beer
• Warrant Officer Class II Bell (21)
• Sergeant Ian Bell (21)
• 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)
• Flight Sergeant Gordon Macmillan Bessette
• Warrant Officer Class II Hector Frederick Binder (33)
• Flight Sergeant Campbell David Bird (30)
• Flying Officer Lester Ferguson Blakeney (20)

See all 307 who died on 25 February →

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