Zeebrugge
28 May 1943 — Zeebrugge
- Date
- 28 May 1943
- Target
- Zeebrugge
- Force dispatched
- 13 aircraft
- Aircraft lost
- 1
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
200 airmen in this archive died on 28 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 Andrew Aitken (28)
- Corporal Harry Allan (22)
- Pilot Officer Ralph Grant Allan (21)
- Pilot Officer Stanley Gordon Allan (21)
- Sergeant Charles Basil Anderson
- Sergeant Harry Anderson
- Sergeant John Leonard Atha
- Flight Sergeant Richard Joseph Ayres (21)
- Warrant Officer Class II Albert George Bailey (21)
- Sergeant Eric Gordon Fay Beaumont Baker (19)
- Pilot Officer Walter George Baker (22)
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Rupert Band (22)
- Sergeant Norman Edgar Barrett (21)
- Sergeant John Reay Bazire
- Sergeant Wilfred Reginald Beadsmoore (33)
- Flying Officer Francis Bruce Beale (26)
- Flying Officer Alexander Farquhar Beaton (24)
- Sergeant Stanley Grieve Beattie (21)
- Flight Sergeant Albert Berry
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Rees Biddle
- Flying Officer Stanley Adolfson Bishop (26)
- Sergeant Ernest Bernard Blackbarow
- Sergeant William Alfred Blackwell (21)
- Flying Officer Alfred Henry Blake (24)
See all 200 who died on 28 May →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →