Hamburg

Date

26 June 1943

Target

Hamburg, Germany

Force dispatched

24 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

245 airmen in this archive died on 26 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.

• Pilot Officer George Nelson Acton (31)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Horace Addison
• Pilot Officer David Aiken
• Warrant Officer Andrew Basil Reginald Airy (26)
• Warrant Officer John Anderson (34)
• Sergeant Thomas Martin Atkinson
• Sergeant James Bailey
• Sergeant Edward Gordon Baker (26)
• Sergeant Thomas Ball (21)
• Flight Sergeant Ivan William Banks (20)
• Sergeant Ronald Alfred Barlow (21)
• Sergeant Thomas George Barton (21)
• Sergeant John Frederick Bates (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Harry Chappell Battersby (23)
• Sergeant Frank Lynford Beeston (21)
• Flight Sergeant Cecil Francis Beitz (29)
• Flying Officer James Bell (23)
• Sergeant Leonard Bennett
• Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie George Bessant (21)
• Pilot Officer Peter Edward Bevis (21)
• Flight Sergeant George Ernest Billson (26)
• Sergeant Edwin Charles Bishop (30)
• Sergeant Phillip Blundell (30)
• Sergeant Geoffrey Victor Branson (20)

See all 245 who died on 26 June →

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