Hamburg

Date

9 November 1942

Target

Hamburg, Germany

Force dispatched

213 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

240 airmen in this archive died on 9 November 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.

• Warrant Officer Class II Conan Thompson Allen (20)
• Pilot Officer George Edward Andrews (22)
• Sergeant Philip Paul Armstrong (20)
• Sergeant William McGowan Arnott (28)
• Leading Aircraftman Jacob Aspinall (21)
• Sergeant Lewis Herbert Austin (27)
• Sergeant Alan Frederick Badcock (23)
• Flight Sergeant Richard Marlow Baldock (20)
• Sergeant Donald George Barnie (26)
• Sergeant Albert James Alfred Bartle (24)
• Leading Aircraftman George Bates (21)
• Sergeant Gilbert George May Battison (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Alan John Baxter (19)
• Flight Sergeant Walter Stanley Beale
• Sergeant Deryck Bonney Beales
• Sergeant John Bell (22)
• Pilot Officer Ronald George Bell (27)
• Sergeant Henry William Bending (34)
• Pilot Officer William Thomas Bent
• Sergeant Ronald Robert Best (20)
• Flight Sergeant Wendell Clifford Black
• Flight Sergeant Robert Whitaker Blades (21)
• Sergeant Ralph Miller Bland
• Flight Sergeant Carl Stirling Boomer (26)

See all 240 who died on 9 November →

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