Bremen

Date

23 March 1944

Target

Bremen, Germany

Force dispatched

117 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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

384 airmen in this archive died on 23 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.

• Flight Lieutenant Ronald Henry Ackland
• Pilot Officer William George Adamson (28)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas James Adkison
• Sergeant Ernest Alfred Anthony (22)
• Flying Officer William Douglas Armour (21)
• Sergeant Robert Geoffrey Arthur (22)
• Sergeant Richard Graham Atkinson (21)
• Sergeant Charles Henry Bagot
• Pilot Officer Leo Bandle
• Flight Sergeant Henry Keith Barden (21)
• Sergeant Thomas James Barnett (39)
• Sergeant Charles Geoffrey Gordon Bateman
• Flight Sergeant John Edward Beaman (21)
• Flight Lieutenant John Rogers Beckett (27)
• Pilot Officer Alexander Matthew James Bell (34)
• Flying Officer Peter Anthony Charles Bell (23)
• Sergeant Philip Charles Knill Bennett (19)
• Sergeant Stanley George Bentley (20)
• Squadron Leader Kenneth George Bickers (21)
• Sergeant Leonard Douglas Blackford (24)
• Flying Officer Norman Eric Blight
• Air Sergeant Bernard Blomson
• Sergeant Frank Sidney Bodkin (21)
• Sergeant Jack Northwood Boston (22)

See all 384 who died on 23 March →

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