Magdeburg

Date

21 January 1944

Target

Magdeburg, Germany

Force dispatched

648 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

419 airmen in this archive died on 21 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.

• Flying Officer Arthur Frank Abbott (32)
• Sergeant Leslie Francis Abel (21)
• Sergeant Aleck Abrahams
• Flight Sergeant James McGinn Aitken
• Squadron Leader Arthur Marsden Lewis Alderton (24)
• Pilot Officer Robert Norman Allan (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Basil George Ragdale Allen (20)
• Squadron Leader Donald Mackenzie Arnot
• Sergeant Leo Ashton (21)
• Sergeant William Goodson Atkins (20)
• Sergeant John Anthony Atkinson (24)
• Flight Sergeant Reginald Charles Bailey
• Sergeant Victor George Baker (21)
• Pilot Officer William Leroy Baker (22)
• Sergeant Ernest Balaam (23)
• Sergeant Cecil Malcolm Baldry
• Flying Officer Peter Richard Bales (24)
• Sergeant John Douglas Barker (19)
• Flight Sergeant William Thomas Barnes (27)
• Flight Sergeant John Percival Bartington (22)
• Flight Sergeant Douglas Walter Batten (28)
• Sergeant Kenneth William John Baxter (20)
• Warrant Officer Class II Robert Leroy Baxter (23)
• Sergeant Roger Marie Paul Joseph Belpaire (22)

See all 419 who died on 21 January →

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