England

Date

23 June 1943

Target

England

Force dispatched

30 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

288 airmen in this archive died on 23 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 Roland Graham Akers
• Sergeant John Alexander (27)
• Warrant Officer John Allen (28)
• Pilot Officer Roy Locke Amesbury (22)
• Sergeant John Anderson (20)
• Sergeant Walter A. Anderson (22)
• Sergeant Leo Vernon Anthony (23)
• Pilot Officer George Wesley Armstrong
• Sergeant Leslie Ashworth (28)
• Sergeant Frederick James Ross Bain (20)
• Sergeant Frederick Ernest Baker
• Flight Sergeant Edward Lloyd Barrett (24)
• Flight Sergeant Edgar Batty (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Carl Phillips Beairsto
• Sergeant Thomas Hylton Bell (22)
• Pilot Officer Harold Donovan Belsher (28)
• Flight Sergeant John William Bembridge (20)
• Sergeant Terence Bennett (20)
• Sergeant David Howard Benson (21)
• Flight Sergeant Stuart Richard Bisset (20)
• Flying Officer Sydney Blackhurst (22)
• Sergeant Norman Blanchard (27)
• Flight Sergeant John Frederick Blank (20)
• Pilot Officer Norman Bradford Bluck (22)

See all 288 who died on 23 June →

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