Aachen

Date

24 May 1944

Target

Aachen, Germany

Force dispatched

442 aircraft

Aircraft lost

7

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

252 airmen in this archive died on 24 May 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.

• Sergeant Kenneth Herbert Allaker (22)
• Sergeant Terence Alldritt
• Flight Sergeant Peter Francis Allwright (20)
• Pilot Officer John Neville Almond (21)
• Sergeant Pryce David Andrew
• Flight Lieutenant Herbert Leonard Ashman (30)
• Sergeant Albert Ernest Bachelor (21)
• Flight Sergeant John Bailey (22)
• Sergeant Frank Henry Baker (24)
• Pilot Officer Bernard Oliver Baldwin (22)
• Pilot Officer James William Barber (20)
• Flight Sergeant John Wilfred Barber (21)
• Flight Sergeant Eric Walter Bark (21)
• Sergeant Richard Roy Clements Bartram (30)
• Pilot Officer Albert Bates (28)
• Flight Lieutenant Edgar William Beattie
• Flying Officer Donald Cosmo Beddoe (26)
• Sergeant Stanley Percy Beech (25)
• Squadron Leader Gordon Bennett (24)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Bernard Berryman (33)
• Pilot Officer Alfred Henry George Biggs (34)
• Sergeant Peter William Bishop (21)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Arthur Bond (21)
• Sergeant Archibald Brewster (27)

See all 252 who died on 24 May →

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