Bremen

Date

4 September 1942

Target

Bremen, Germany

Force dispatched

251 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

149 airmen in this archive died on 4 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.

• Flight Sergeant Victor Ethelbert Ames (26)
• Flight Sergeant James Anderson (22)
• Sergeant John Wilfred Atkinson (31)
• Sergeant Frederick Walter Baker (29)
• Sergeant Henry John Balkwill (27)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Page Barber (20)
• Sergeant Frederick John Charles Barnes (23)
• Sergeant Edward Barr (24)
• Flight Sergeant Alec Henry Beesley (26)
• Flying Officer Sydney Frank Belbin (33)
• Flight Sergeant Louis Arthur Biggin (27)
• Sergeant Stanley Bland
• Flying Officer William Henry Bowler (31)
• Leading Aircraftman Henry Leonard Percival Boxer
• Sergeant Robert Brook (25)
• Sergeant Jack Lionel Brovender
• Sergeant George Kirtley Brown
• Flight Lieutenant Jeffrey Bryan (21)
• Sergeant Henry Brown Burnett (20)
• Sergeant Thomas Bernard Burrowes (19)
• Sergeant Herbert Randall Bushell (27)
• Flying Officer John Callahan (23)
• Flight Sergeant John Parker Campbell (27)
• Sergeant Charles Frederick Castle (27)

See all 149 who died on 4 September →

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