Emden

Date

24 October 1943

Target

Emden, Germany

Force dispatched

49 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

96 airmen in this archive died on 24 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.

• Flying Officer Ronald Maclean Adam
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Albert Alexander
• Leading Aircraftman John Jeffery Andre (19)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Ashcroft (23)
• Warrant Officer Graham Nelson Banks (25)
• Sergeant William John Barber (21)
• Sergeant Sidney William Bridgman (23)
• Flight Sergeant James Brock (27)
• Sergeant Eric John Brown (22)
• Squadron Leader Eric William Brown (28)
• Sergeant John Geoffrey Stewart Browne (21)
• Pilot Officer Douglas James Bullock (22)
• Leading Aircraftman John Parnell Burke (32)
• Flight Sergeant Alexander Baxter Christie (29)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Raymond Arthur James Clements (19)
• Sergeant Peter Ambrose Collins (21)
• Squadron Leader Leslie Frank Cooper
• Pilot Officer Francis William Craig (35)
• Corporal Joseph Darwin
• Flight Sergeant Leonard Davis (22)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Andre Deschamps (19)
• Flying Officer Alfred William Dungate (24)
• Flight Sergeant Patton Mason East (29)
• Sergeant Edward Henry Edmonds

See all 96 who died on 24 October →

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