Holland

Date

2 September 1942

Target

Holland

Force dispatched

14 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

147 airmen in this archive died on 2 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 Dennis Alford (20)
• Sergeant Willie Allinson (34)
• Pilot Officer Leslie Israel Alter (32)
• Sergeant William Anderson (20)
• Flight Sergeant George Neville Barnes (25)
• Sergeant Richard John Bebbington (24)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Stanislas Emile M. Bernier
• Sergeant Edwin Harry Beyer (25)
• Sergeant Frank Birch (21)
• Pilot Officer Leonard Percy Booker (29)
• Sergeant Albert Byrom (21)
• Sergeant Thomas McCord Campbell (21)
• Flying Officer William Hastings Russell Campbell (26)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick William Cassidy (25)
• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Charles Cassidy (20)
• Sergeant George Symon Catto (30)
• Flight Sergeant Leslie Roland Clarke (22)
• Sergeant Frederic Peter Coaker (29)
• Sergeant James Francis Collins (32)
• Sergeant William Stewart Collins (20)
• Sergeant Samuel Coop
• Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Ross Cooper (22)
• Sergeant George Frederick Hoberton Couch (19)
• Sergeant Edwin Charles Alfred Coules

See all 147 who died on 2 September →

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