Leverkusen

Date

22 November 1943

Target

Leverkusen

Force dispatched

26 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

400 airmen in this archive died on 22 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.

• Flight Sergeant Douglas Buchanan Aberle (20)
• Sergeant Albert Ackland (21)
• Flight Sergeant William Eric Ackland (20)
• Sergeant Herbert Charles Adams (20)
• Flying Officer George Ainsworth
• Sergeant Donald Paget Aitken (21)
• Sergeant William Allen (21)
• Sergeant Eric Ambrose (23)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Clarence Anderson (18)
• Sergeant Howard Leroy Anderson
• Sergeant Robert Anderson (26)
• Pilot Officer William Anderson
• Squadron Leader Douglas Campbell Anset (23)
• Sergeant George Edward Apps (21)
• Flying Officer Irving Armitage
• Sergeant Cyril James Ashton
• Sergeant Roland Atkins (20)
• Sergeant Frederick Atkinson (28)
• Flight Sergeant George Addison Atkinson (20)
• Sergeant Arnold William Henry Atyeo (23)
• Sergeant Richard Ernest Charles Bacon (22)
• Flight Lieutenant George Cooley Bailey (21)
• Sergeant Roland Barnsley Bainbridge (23)
• Sergeant William Albert John Baldwin (21)

See all 400 who died on 22 November →

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