Arnage
4 March 1943 — Arnage
- Date
- 4 March 1943
- Target
- Arnage
- Force dispatched
- 12 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
142 airmen in this archive died on 4 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 Denis William Alexander (21)
- Flying Officer Fred Charles Allen (27)
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Belmont Alred (30)
- Sergeant Eric Brandreth Alsop (34)
- Flight Sergeant Alphe Baptiste Amirault (24)
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Geoffrey Mayou Argile (21)
- Sergeant James Frederick Arrowsmith (20)
- Flight Sergeant Charles Carr Atkin (27)
- Flight Sergeant Gerald Russell Avey
- Sergeant Ronald Dennis Baker (19)
- Sergeant Harry William Baldock (23)
- Flight Lieutenant Peter John Christopher Bateman-champain (26)
- Leading Aircraftman Maurice Stanley Beecham (22)
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Maxwell Bell (22)
- Flying Officer Donald Edward Bennett (28)
- Flying Officer Neville Bernett
- Flight Sergeant Keith Charles Birdsey (31)
- Sergeant David Black (21)
- Sergeant John Hannah Black
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Edward Blackwell
- Sergeant James Edward Bonson
- Flying Officer Stanley Sherwen Brand (21)
- Aircraftman 1st Class Lawrie Mayman Burford (23)
- Sergeant Alexander Campbell
See all 142 who died on 4 March →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →