Karlsruhe

Date

2 September 1942

Target

Karlsruhe, Germany

Force dispatched

200 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) →