Hannover

Date

18 October 1943

Target

Hannover

Force dispatched

976 aircraft

Aircraft lost

18

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

184 airmen in this archive died on 18 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 Sidney Allen (21)
• Sergeant Harry Austin (19)
• Pilot Officer Jacobus Adriaan Johannes Baard (22)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Henry Baden (31)
• Flying Officer George Graham Banks (21)
• Sergeant Stanley George Barlegs (21)
• Aircraftman 1st Class John Joseph Barrett (38)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert John Bateman (34)
• Sergeant Frederick George Beardwell (35)
• Flight Sergeant Arturo Beaumont
• Sergeant Norman Beer
• Sergeant Tom Bell
• Sergeant Ernest Graham Berry
• Sergeant Arthur Edward Bertram (19)
• Flying Officer Gordon William Bigmore (21)
• Sergeant John Edward Henry Bird (21)
• Pilot Officer Herman Peter Boness (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Harold William Booker (20)
• Sergeant Frederick Leonard Bousher (21)
• Sergeant Kenneth Lindon Brindley (20)
• Warrant Officer Henry Edward Bruck (21)
• Sergeant Alexander Brodie Brunton
• Flight Sergeant James Thomas Bundle
• Sergeant Eric George Burnett (21)

See all 184 who died on 18 October →

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