Paderborn
16 March 1943 — Paderborn
- Date
- 16 March 1943
- Target
- Paderborn
- Force dispatched
- 17 aircraft
- Aircraft lost
- 1
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
29 airmen in this archive died on 16 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.
- Leading Aircraftman Albert John Betts
- Corporal Bertram Clifford Broadbent (29)
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Bromley (41)
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles Ernest Chambers (22)
- Warrant Officer Class II Walter Leon Dion
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Bond Douthwaite (22)
- Sergeant Frederick Hugh Elder (21)
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry John George Ellis (19)
- Warrant Officer Bernard Denis Llewellyn Gillman
- Leading Aircraftman William Henry Hale (21)
- Flying Officer Alfred Ronald Heins (26)
- Sergeant Ladislav Kocourek
- Sergeant John Harvison Manuel (20)
- Pilot Officer Peter John Dickson McGeehan (21)
- Sergeant Paul Chandler Mercer (23)
- Flying Officer Reginald Charles Morris (33)
- Sergeant Lancelot Hood Schultz (28)
- Warrant Officer Class I Ronald Arthur Seaker
- Corporal Darcy Arthur John Sharland (20)
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Walter Edward Sivier (21)
- Sergeant Andrew Hamilton McGhee Smith (32)
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Harold Spicer (21)
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Prideaux Spry (20)
- Flight Sergeant Stuart Allan Switzer (21)
See all 29 who died on 16 March →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →