Zeebrugge
23 May 1943 — Zeebrugge
- Date
- 23 May 1943
- Target
- Zeebrugge
- Force dispatched
- 12 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
304 airmen in this archive died on 23 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.
- Flight Sergeant William Geoffrey Abbott (21)
- Pilot Officer Derrick Henry George Adams
- Flight Sergeant Frederick George Addis (31)
- Sergeant Ernest Douglas Ager (23)
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Henry Alderson (29)
- Sergeant Donald Eric Alford (20)
- Sergeant Frederick Victor George Alloway (21)
- Sergeant Robert Hasting Ancell (39)
- Sergeant William Antcliffe (27)
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Stevens Anthony
- Sergeant Victor Harry Archer (23)
- Sergeant Herbert George Ashton (33)
- Flight Sergeant George Assaf
- Sergeant Charles Wilson Astle (23)
- Sergeant Horace William Austin (20)
- Sergeant Robert Frederick Fletcher Baggaley
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Arthur William Bailey (31)
- Warrant Officer Class II George Bancescu (23)
- Sergeant William Herbert Bastable (21)
- Pilot Officer Edward Semmens Bawden (23)
- Sergeant William Parker Baxter
- Sergeant Thomas Richard Bayles
- Sergeant Ronald Bell (22)
- Corporal Albert Edward Belsham (32)
See all 304 who died on 23 May →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →