Deelen

Date

28 January 1944

Target

Deelen

Force dispatched

49 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

393 airmen in this archive died on 28 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.

• Sergeant Cyril Arthur Acombe-hill
• Flying Officer Harold Raymond Adams (20)
• Flight Sergeant David Sydney Alexander (21)
• Pilot Officer James Alexander (24)
• Flying Officer Frank Allison
• Pilot Officer Joseph Emmanuel Alves (22)
• Warrant Officer Class I Anderson (21)
• Pilot Officer Leslie Dean Anderson (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Robert William Anderson
• Pilot Officer Walter Harold Andrews
• Sergeant Eric Ernest Appleby (20)
• Corporal John William Armfield (23)
• Sergeant George Armstrong (20)
• Sergeant Cyril Atherton (31)
• Sergeant Francis Alfred Aver (23)
• Flight Sergeant George Arthur Baker (34)
• Flying Officer Herbert Allan Baker
• Pilot Officer John Donald Barrie (23)
• Flight Sergeant George Henry Barrington (21)
• Sergeant Cedric Jack Barron (30)
• Sergeant Michael Joseph Bates (20)
• Sergeant Raymond John Batham (19)
• Sergeant William Beach (21)
• Flight Sergeant James Begg

See all 393 who died on 28 January →

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