Bremen

Date

8 October 1943

Target

Bremen, Germany

Force dispatched

119 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

263 airmen in this archive died on 8 October 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 Derrick John Edwin Adams (19)
• Sergeant Donald Albert Adams (20)
• Sergeant Peter Maurice Adams (21)
• Sergeant William Thompson Adamson (29)
• Corporal Ivan Alderson
• Leading Aircraftman Sidney William Allan (33)
• Flight Sergeant Evan Macdonald Anderson (25)
• Sergeant Edward Slaven Andrew
• Flying Officer Frank George Arliss (27)
• Sergeant Thomas Alfred Ashcroft (22)
• Sergeant William Thomas Austin (22)
• Flying Officer Ralph Edmund Baht (23)
• Sergeant Arthur Bailey (23)
• Sergeant Clifford John Bailey (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Douglas Charles Baker
• Flying Officer Robert Edward Baker (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Edward Cecil Ball (33)
• Flight Sergeant Wallace Bruce Ballantyne
• Sergeant Robert Allan Barr
• Sergeant Percy Barton (30)
• Warrant Officer Class II William Beckthold
• Sergeant Graham Beeken (19)
• Flying Officer James Hope Begg (35)
• Pilot Officer Paul Belkin (22)

See all 263 who died on 8 October →

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