Rotterdam

Date

29 March 1943

Target

Rotterdam

Force dispatched

61 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

290 airmen in this archive died on 29 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.

• Warrant Officer Class II Hugh Garfield Allen (30)
• Sergeant Denys Andrew (22)
• Sergeant William Gilbert John Aplin (20)
• Flying Officer John Robert Armstrong (25)
• Sergeant Ernest Joseph Aspden (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Harry Robert Bacon (23)
• Sergeant John Arthur Bailey (23)
• Warrant Officer Class II David Lachlan Bain (27)
• Sergeant George William Frederick Baker (22)
• Sergeant Edward Frank Ball (21)
• Sergeant Frank Alexander Bandeen (21)
• Flight Sergeant John Francis Barnes (20)
• Flight Sergeant Percival Edward Barron (28)
• Sergeant Sidney Albert Bayfield (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Bertram Leonard Bayliss (38)
• Flight Sergeant Jack Bernard Bayliss (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Herbert John Beck
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas Bedford (28)
• Sergeant Charles Armstrong Bell (29)
• Sergeant Kenneth Benjamin (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Frank Lester Beresford (29)
• Corporal Ralph Stanley Bezanson (22)
• Sergeant Edwin Arthur Biggs (33)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Richard Birtwistle (23)

See all 290 who died on 29 March →

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