Emden

Date

21 October 1943

Target

Emden, Germany

Force dispatched

11 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

356 airmen in this archive died on 21 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.

• Flight Lieutenant Cyril Howard Abbott (34)
• Flight Sergeant Dene Adams (20)
• Flight Sergeant Stanley Bean Adams (23)
• Flight Sergeant John Charles Adey (21)
• Flight Sergeant Gordon Edward Aitken (20)
• Pilot Officer Basil Eric Edward Allden (22)
• Sergeant Geoffrey Frank Allison (21)
• Flying Officer Peter Anderson (31)
• Pilot Officer Peter Ronald Andrews (22)
• Flight Sergeant Michael Antifaev
• Flying Officer Roy Elkington Ault (22)
• Flying Officer Robert Lionel Harman Ball (20)
• Flying Officer James Hamilton Balloch
• Flying Officer John Stuart Barber (22)
• Pilot Officer Alfred Vernon Cecil Barden (18)
• Sergeant Victor Joseph Barnes
• Flying Officer Edwin Arthur Bater
• Flight Sergeant Melville Collinson Baynes (26)
• Pilot Officer Stanley John Bell (35)
• Sergeant George Herbert Bennett (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Leslie Montague Bennett (25)
• Flying Officer Alexander Edward Beyak
• Sergeant Henry James Bird (19)
• Sergeant Charles Clifford Bishop (20)

See all 356 who died on 21 October →

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