Operation Hydra
17 August 1943 — Peenemünde
- Date
- 17 August 1943
- Target
- Peenemünde, Germany
- Force dispatched
- 596 aircraft
- Aircraft lost
- 40
Narrative
Night raid on the V-weapons research establishment at Peenemünde on the Baltic coast. 596 aircraft dispatched, 40 lost.
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
367 airmen in this archive died on 17 August 1943 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 Alfred Ramsay Aldridge (22)
- Flight Sergeant David Colin Brodie Angus (31)
- Sergeant Horace George Ansell (21)
- Sergeant Oswald Morgan Atkins
- Sergeant Herbert Charles Baker
- Flying Officer Stanley Alfred Baldwin (27)
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd Marshall Banks (21)
- Flying Officer Charles Lawrence Barbezat (34)
- Sergeant Sydney Barnes
- Sergeant Tom Brown Barrie (21)
- Sergeant Joseph Henry Bassett (20)
- Flying Officer Harold Ockenden Batchelor (22)
- Sergeant James Dennis Bates (21)
- Leading Aircraftman Lionel Kendall Bates (22)
- Flight Sergeant John Martin Batterton (23)
- Flight Sergeant Eloi Joseph Emile Beaudry (20)
- Flight Sergeant Harold Beaumont (23)
- Pilot Officer William Edward Beavo
- Sergeant Leonard Alan Bell (20)
- Sergeant George William Bentley (20)
- Flight Lieutenant Walter Henry Bewg
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Roy Biggs (33)
- Flight Sergeant Winston Woolley Blackmore
- Flight Sergeant Ian F. Blair