Stettin

Date

5 January 1944

Target

Stettin, Germany

Force dispatched

16 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

183 airmen in this archive died on 5 January 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.

• Aircraftman 2nd Class Dennis Acton (34)
• Flight Sergeant James Francis Andrew (23)
• Flying Officer Jack Anstee (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Reginald George Appleby (27)
• Squadron Leader Henry Ronald Bailey (31)
• Sergeant Arthur Stanley Baker
• Sergeant Edward Stanley Barlow (20)
• Sergeant Kenneth Charles Bartlett (19)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Frederick Fisher Barton (21)
• Corporal Laurence Frederick Bateman
• Aircraftman 1st Class Frank Aubrey Beckford
• Sergeant Thomas Bell (21)
• Flying Officer Robert Ernest Berkley (22)
• Flying Officer William Howard Bowen (29)
• Sergeant George Lester Brehaut
• Sergeant David Abel Briggs (19)
• Flight Sergeant Clifford George Bromham (29)
• Squadron Leader Ralph Brown (33)
• Sergeant Sidney Burnell (20)
• Sergeant David Mason Campbell (22)
• Sergeant Kenneth Alfred John Campbell (23)
• Sergeant Reginald William Carpenter
• Flight Sergeant Harold Cherns (20)
• Flying Officer Alexander William Cherrie (23)

See all 183 who died on 5 January →

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