Hamburg

Date

25 July 1943

Target

Hamburg, Germany

Force dispatched

17 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

314 airmen in this archive died on 25 July 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 John McFarland Acheson (27)
• Pilot Officer Douglas Baldwin Ackerley (22)
• Pilot Officer Anthony Agar (25)
• Flying Officer George Frederick Alderdice (21)
• Sergeant Thomas Aldridge (21)
• Flying Officer Anthony Vitus (tony) Amberg (22)
• Sergeant Ernest Edward Alexander Ambridge (22)
• Flying Officer Roy Vernon Anderson (37)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Archer (23)
• Sergeant Michael Henry Charles Ashdown (20)
• Flight Sergeant Aubrey George Ashley (25)
• Pilot Officer George Ashplant (21)
• Flight Sergeant George William Askew (22)
• Sergeant George Irvine Bailey (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Tom Bakewell (31)
• Sergeant William Barnes (34)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Henry William Baugh (22)
• Flight Sergeant Hugh Walter Beavis (21)
• Pilot Officer Leslie Thomas Beck
• Sergeant Derek Reginald Bell (21)
• Pilot Officer Richard Watt Belshaw (21)
• Flight Lieutenant John Lancelot Birbeck (23)
• Flight Sergeant Eric Norman Bird (20)
• Sergeant Warwick Hall Bolam (21)

See all 314 who died on 25 July →

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