Bochurn

Date

29 November 1943

Target

Bochurn

Force dispatched

73 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

307 airmen in this archive died on 29 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.

• Corporal Walter James Abbott (33)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Ebenezer Adamson (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Batty Alderson (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Eric William Andrews (23)
• Corporal Stanley Glendon Ashworth
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry Robert Aves
• Leading Aircraftman Ingerson Keith Fey Badcock (31)
• Flying Officer Ronald Bailes (23)
• Leading Aircraftman George John William Barber
• Flight Sergeant Leonard Percival Barber (25)
• Sergeant Donald Crosbie Barbour (21)
• Flying Officer Alfred Walter Fitzroy Barry (23)
• Corporal Maurice Alfred Albert Beatty (23)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class William Bell (33)
• Pilot Officer James Bennett (25)
• Warrant Officer Claude Henry Bere (32)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class David Blackwood (26)
• Leading Aircraftman Alfred George Blakely (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Ivanhoe Frederick Bonner (24)
• Corporal Ben Boulton (30)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Phil Bracegirdle (31)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph Eric Brant
• Flying Officer Alfred Sidney Brentnall (37)
• Sergeant James Broadhurst (29)

See all 307 who died on 29 November →

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