Operation Chastise - The 'dambusters' Raid

Date

16 May 1943

Target

Operation Chastise - The 'dambusters' Raid

Force dispatched

54 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

149 airmen in this archive died on 16 May 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.

• Sergeant Percy Ronald Annetts (20)
• Warrant Officer Class II James Lamb Arthur (25)
• Flight Lieutenant William Astell (23)
• Sergeant Harry Kenneth Barker (28)
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Norman George Barlow (32)
• Warrant Officer Arthur Barnes (22)
• Flying Officer Jack Kenneth Barrett (22)
• Flying Officer Alexander Chalmers Barrie (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Jack Edward Bartrum (29)
• Flight Lieutenant Herbert John Blackshaw (26)
• Sergeant Jiri Bleier (28)
• Sergeant Richard Bolitho (23)
• Flying Officer Robert George Bowley (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Gordon Brady (27)
• Sergeant Charles Brennan
• Flying Officer Robert Bridge (23)
• Flying Officer George Adrian Leonard Broderick (32)
• Flying Officer Andrew Alexander Brown (24)
• Flying Officer Philip Sidney Burgess (20)
• Pilot Officer Lewis Johnstone Burpee (25)
• Sergeant Norman Rupert Burrows
• Pilot Officer Vernon William Byers (32)
• Flight Sergeant Roy Dempsey Carne (22)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph John Carter (34)

See all 149 who died on 16 May →

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