Hamburg

Date

28 July 1942

Target

Hamburg, Germany

Force dispatched

256 aircraft

Aircraft lost

10

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

246 airmen in this archive died on 28 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.

• Sergeant George Alder (22)
• Sergeant Alan Aldridge (20)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Edward Claude Alton (20)
• Sergeant Vincent Anderson
• Flight Sergeant Prentis Blair Andrew (25)
• Pilot Officer Neil Greig Arthur (20)
• Sergeant William John Atchison (31)
• Corporal Leslie Herbert Atkinson
• Flight Sergeant Richard Butcher Ayers
• Leading Air Mechanic John Barnier (35)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Barron (32)
• Sergeant Albert Henry Charles Bates (26)
• Pilot Officer George Corbett Bayley (23)
• Pilot Officer Gerard McKee Beech
• Flight Sergeant William John Birmingham (21)
• Warrant Officer John Morton Burroughs Black (22)
• Pilot Officer John Rochester Boiston (22)
• Flight Sergeant Ernest Richard Borsberry (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Henry Cyril Francis Bowman (26)
• Sergeant John Boyle (26)
• Pilot Officer James Nicholas Brady (26)
• Leading Aircraftman Frederick James Brand (20)
• Sergeant Russell Stanley Brandish (21)
• Flight Sergeant John Terry Bray (23)

See all 246 who died on 28 July →

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