Bochum

Date

12 June 1943

Target

Bochum, Germany

Force dispatched

503 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

464 airmen in this archive died on 12 June 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 Frederick Thomas Adams (21)
• Flying Officer Robert Jasper Agur
• Sergeant John Aitken
• Flying Officer Robert Beckett Albon (22)
• Pilot Officer Reginald Ellithorne Allen
• Squadron Leader Benjamin Southam Ambrose (27)
• Sergeant Frederick Anderson (22)
• Flight Sergeant James John Anderson
• Sergeant James Joseph Anderton (31)
• Flight Sergeant Clifford Raymond Andrews
• Sergeant Jack Norman Angus
• Sergeant Reginald Arthur Charles Avery (20)
• Sergeant George Alfred Ayres (19)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas James Bainbridge (26)
• Sergeant Herbert Baker (18)
• Sergeant Peter Francis Baker (20)
• Flight Sergeant Edward Alexander Baldwin (22)
• Sergeant Leonard Richard Barrow (21)
• Sergeant Douglas Wallace Bartholomew (32)
• Sergeant Donald Compton Bauman (22)
• Flight Sergeant Malcolm Baxter (21)
• Sergeant Leslie Thomas Beard (20)
• Sergeant James Richard Bell (22)
• Sergeant William Henry Bellhouse

See all 464 who died on 12 June →

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