Hamburg

Date

28 July 1943

Command

Bomber Command

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

192 airmen in this archive died on 28 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 Vernon Allen (20)
• Flying Officer Robert Frederick William Allison
• Flight Lieutenant Thomas Allitt (32)
• Leading Aircraftman Charles Percy Anken (24)
• Sergeant Ian George Armet (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Halden John Cameron Armstrong (30)
• Sergeant Francis Langhorne Backhouse (23)
• Sergeant Christopher Albert Bailey
• Warrant Officer Class II William Balduff (26)
• Flying Officer Ronald George Ballantine (22)
• Flying Officer Joseph Wallace Bancroft (22)
• Sergeant Douglas Allen Barnfather (25)
• Sergeant Harold Garside Bartle (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Frederick Dennis Barton (21)
• Sergeant Donald John Beesley (20)
• Sergeant Leslie George Bentley
• Pilot Officer Colin Muir Binnie (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Albert Lloyd Bjarnason (22)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Hamilton Bowcock
• Sergeant Herbert Bradley (27)
• Flight Sergeant George Arthur Briggs (22)
• Sergeant Gordon Harry Brown (19)
• Pilot Officer James Thomas Buchanan (31)
• Pilot Officer Eric Alexander Buglass (22)

See all 192 who died on 28 July →

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