Emden

Date

3 September 1942

Command

Bomber Command

Target

Emden, Germany

Force dispatched

11 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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

134 airmen in this archive died on 3 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 Willie Allinson (34)
• Pilot Officer Leslie Israel Alter (32)
• Flight Sergeant James Anderson (22)
• Sergeant William Anderson (20)
• Sergeant Edward Barr (24)
• Sergeant Richard John Bebbington (24)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Stanislas Emile M. Bernier
• Sergeant Edwin Harry Beyer (25)
• Flying Officer William Henry Bowler (31)
• Sergeant Jack Lionel Brovender
• Sergeant Henry Brown Burnett (20)
• Flying Officer John Callahan (23)
• Flight Sergeant John Parker Campbell (27)
• Flying Officer William Hastings Russell Campbell (26)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick William Cassidy (25)
• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Charles Cassidy (20)
• Flight Sergeant Leslie Roland Clarke (22)
• Sergeant William Stewart Collins (20)
• Sergeant Samuel Coop
• Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Ross Cooper (22)
• Warrant Officer Class II James Francis Cooper (29)
• Flight Sergeant John Stanley Cooper (22)
• Sergeant Edwin Charles Alfred Coules
• Aircraftman 1st Class Fred Ivor Court (19)

See all 134 who died on 3 September →

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