Ludwigshafen

Date

17 November 1943

Target

Ludwigshafen

Force dispatched

88 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

257 airmen in this archive died on 17 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 Douglas Gordon Addison (20)
• Flying Officer Terence Norman Alderdice (33)
• Flight Sergeant Jack Shaw Alexander (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Jack Allibone (22)
• Flight Sergeant Hector Ferdinand Altus (33)
• Warrant Officer Class II Sydney Andrew Anderson (23)
• Sergeant George Henry Austin
• Flight Lieutenant Ernest Thomas Baker (29)
• Flying Officer Kenneth George Baldwin (25)
• Sergeant Hugh George Bannister (19)
• Flying Officer Robert Barr
• Flight Sergeant William Barraclough (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Raymond Carl Behrndt (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Stanley Betts (20)
• Sergeant Thomas Aldroyd Bird
• Flying Officer David Edward Blain (29)
• Sergeant John Miller Bliss (20)
• Flying Officer Peter Lewis Bowden (20)
• Sergeant Robert Sidney Bowers (19)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class William Brackenridge (20)
• Flight Sergeant Francis Bradbury (19)
• Sergeant John William Bradshaw (23)
• Sergeant Francis Brady (21)
• Sergeant Frank Bramall (21)

See all 257 who died on 17 November →

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