Hamburg

Date

26 July 1942

Target

Hamburg, Germany

Force dispatched

403 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

247 airmen in this archive died on 26 July 1942 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 Eric George Henry Allen (31)
• Sergeant William Arthur Allsopp (24)
• Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Appleyard (20)
• Sergeant Norman Frank Axford (20)
• Pilot Officer William Henry Baber
• Sergeant Donald Bagley (21)
• Sergeant Garnet James Bailey (22)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Kenneth Baker (20)
• Second Lieutenant Reginald George Baker
• Flying Officer Herbert Boyd Barber (24)
• Sergeant Peter Barr (24)
• Sergeant Oswald Barraclough (23)
• Sergeant Robert Lovie Beaddie (23)
• Flight Sergeant Richard Denison Beeston (33)
• Sergeant Aubrey Archdale Bice (25)
• Sergeant Guy Andre Rene Bissonnette
• Flying Officer Kenneth Sinclair Blair (25)
• Sergeant Cyril Wellesley Bourke
• Sergeant Alwyne Robert Bowen (21)
• Sergeant Ernest Bradley (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Joshua Arthur Bradley (39)
• Sergeant Robert Hugh Brash (32)
• Flying Officer Frederick James Breen (24)
• Sergeant James Vincent Brett (25)

See all 247 who died on 26 July →

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