Saarbrücken

Date

1 September 1942

Target

Saarbrücken, Germany

Force dispatched

231 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

131 airmen in this archive died on 1 September 1942 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 Norman Jack Alecock (31)
• Sergeant Dennis Alford (20)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Bernard Armitage
• Flight Sergeant Harry Asquith (21)
• Flight Sergeant George Neville Barnes (25)
• Air Sergeant Oscar Berkowitz (27)
• Sergeant Frank Birch (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Henry Marcus Bolt (19)
• Pilot Officer Leonard Percy Booker (29)
• Sergeant Donald Maurice Bowd (22)
• Lieutenant William Hubert Hart Brown (22)
• Sergeant Albert Byrom (21)
• Sergeant Thomas McCord Campbell (21)
• Sergeant George Symon Catto (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Frederick Chaston (36)
• Sergeant Richard Arthur Cherrington
• Flight Sergeant Roy Victor Chinnery (30)
• Sergeant Frederic Peter Coaker (29)
• Sergeant James Francis Collins (32)
• Flight Sergeant Sydney Mark Cooksey (34)
• Sergeant George Frederick Hoberton Couch (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Alfred Charles Culver (25)
• Flight Sergeant Louis Donald Dawdy (26)
• Sergeant Frederick Joesph Dawson (24)

See all 131 who died on 1 September →

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