Leverkusen

Date

4 November 1943

Target

Leverkusen

Force dispatched

36 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

123 airmen in this archive died on 4 November 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 Graham Wilson Allen (20)
• Sergeant John McIntosh Anderson (19)
• Flight Sergeant George Frederick Austin (31)
• Captain Henry Barnard (43)
• Pilot Officer Jacques Barthelemy (19)
• Leading Aircraftman James Benn (22)
• Flying Officer Arthur John Newton Berry (22)
• Flight Sergeant John Blackshaw (29)
• Flying Officer Alastair Allan Stewart Bowman (20)
• Flight Sergeant Henry Brennand
• Flight Sergeant Douglas Frederick Brown
• Sergeant Ronald Lewis Brunton
• Flight Sergeant Ian McGregor Burch (22)
• Sergeant Patrick Maurice Butler (23)
• Pilot Officer Keith Baines Callaghan (20)
• Flight Sergeant Ian Hope Callister (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Edward Godfrey Carter (19)
• Pilot Officer William James Champion (25)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Charlton (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Leslie Eric Childe (24)
• Warrant Officer Class I James Herbert Stevenson Clarke (23)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Harold Cook (34)
• Sergeant Josiah Wilmore Cope (20)
• Sergeant Arthur Alfred Copeland (23)

See all 123 who died on 4 November →

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