Hannover

Date

6 March 1944

Target

Hannover

Force dispatched

30 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

112 airmen in this archive died on 6 March 1944 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 I Alan Aiken (19)
• Warrant Officer Albert Edward Alberry (28)
• Leading Aircraftman George Stephen Ambrose
• Sergeant Bernard Vincent Arney (20)
• Lieutenant Aronson (22)
• Sergeant Charles Stewart McGregor Averill (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Albert Bagnall (22)
• Lieutenant Bain (28)
• Flying Officer George James Ballard (23)
• Flying Officer Edward Granville Bayer
• Pilot Officer Frank Reginald Bedford (33)
• Lieutenant Bell (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Arthur Lea Baldwin Bent (28)
• Lieutenant Bowles (30)
• Flying Officer Peter Angus Bradley
• Sergeant Peter Charles Brown (20)
• Sergeant James Gerard Bruen (24)
• Flying Officer Clifford Frank Bull (23)
• Warrant Officer Class II Frederick Lighthall Pulsford Cains (22)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Douglas Frederick Call (19)
• Warrant Officer Edward Callander
• Pilot Officer Neil Donald Campbell
• Flying Officer Glen Ross Canfield (22)
• Pilot Officer Gerald Alexandre Arthur A. Caron (22)

See all 112 who died on 6 March →

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