Hamburg

Date

3 May 1942

Target

Hamburg, Germany

Force dispatched

81 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

86 airmen in this archive died on 3 May 1942 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 Arthur Walter Barnes (35)
• Flight Lieutenant Horace William Biggs (42)
• Leading Aircraftman Robert Bond (21)
• Pilot Officer Robert Vincent Brossmer
• Pilot Officer Richard Arthur Bryden (19)
• Flying Officer Albert George Frederick Cheesewright (41)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Fred Clayton (21)
• Flight Sergeant Denis Frederic Clifford (26)
• Pilot Officer Gerald Ware Copeland (27)
• Sergeant James Daley
• Sergeant Thomas Percy Willoughby Davies (30)
• Flight Sergeant Ernest Alfred Deverson (29)
• Major Johan Louis Venter De Wet (24)
• Sergeant Dennis Waterman Drew (28)
• Second Lieutenant Jacobus Stephanus Du Toit
• Sergeant Gilbert Murray Edwards (30)
• Flight Sergeant George Emerson Fallis (28)
• Sergeant Walter Alfred Freeman
• Pilot Officer Ralph William Freiberg (31)
• Pilot Officer Frederick Arvon Gamble (26)
• Sergeant Allan Barnes Goff (22)
• Sergeant James Frank Gooder (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Gordon
• Leading Aircraftman James Herbert Hales

See all 86 who died on 3 May →

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