Knaben

Date

3 March 1943

Target

Knaben

Force dispatched

11 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

167 airmen in this archive died on 3 March 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 Laurence Norman Abercrombie (29)
• Flying Officer Leslie Alexander Allan (23)
• Flying Officer Fred Charles Allen (27)
• Sergeant Ronald Sidney Allen (24)
• Sergeant Vaughan Stacey Allen (19)
• Flying Officer Geoffrey Belmont Alred (30)
• Sergeant Kenneth Alfred Amond (20)
• Flight Sergeant Orison Edwin Amos (30)
• Sergeant James Frederick Arrowsmith (20)
• Sergeant Arthur Frederick Ash (25)
• Sergeant Joseph Engelbert Audy
• Sergeant Peter Frederick Bacon (20)
• Sergeant Peter Bailey (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry Barer (19)
• Sergeant James Arthur Barnard (30)
• Flying Officer Francis Walter Bartleet (34)
• Leading Aircraftman Maurice Stanley Beecham (22)
• Sergeant Arthur Lawrence Bellerby
• Flying Officer Neville Bernett
• Flight Sergeant Walter Billington (31)
• Flight Sergeant Colin Ray Bird (23)
• Pilot Officer Arthur Mervyn Bridgman (26)
• Flight Sergeant Henry Herbert Brien (26)
• Pilot Officer Donald Wallace Bryant (21)

See all 167 who died on 3 March →

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