Bremen

Date

19 July 1944

Target

Bremen, Germany

Force dispatched

65 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

108 airmen in this archive died on 19 July 1944 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.

• Flight Sergeant Colin Frederick Allen (20)
• Flying Officer William David Appleyard (22)
• Pilot Officer Gordon Howard Atkinson (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Alwyn Royce Baker (19)
• Pilot Officer Wilfred Stanley Barnard (20)
• Flight Sergeant Gordon Edwin Beckhouse (20)
• Flying Officer David Beharrie (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Leon Herbert Bernard Bennett (19)
• Flight Sergeant William Sidney Atkinson Birks (21)
• Flying Officer Leonard Joseph Blackwell (21)
• Pilot Officer Norman Alfred Boucher (28)
• Flight Sergeant John Charles Broughton Boydell (19)
• Flying Officer Aubrey Ginders Britten
• Flight Sergeant Edgar Barwood Brown (24)
• Flying Officer John Francis Bush (26)
• Flight Sergeant William Alexander Cameron (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Lionel Manton Capron (40)
• Flying Officer Rex Lionel Carr (27)
• Flying Officer Hollis Andrew Taylor Clark
• Flying Officer Ian David Henry Clarson (19)
• Flight Sergeant Harold Leslie Coggin (29)
• Flying Officer Thomas Edward William Davis (21)
• Flying Officer Peter Buck Dennett (21)
• Flying Officer Norman Wilfred Donnelley (32)

See all 108 who died on 19 July →

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