Bremen

Date

13 September 1942

Target

Bremen, Germany

Force dispatched

446 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

168 airmen in this archive died on 13 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 John Joseph William Adams (20)
• Flying Officer Kevin Joseph Ahern (22)
• Flight Sergeant Alfred Charles Allberry (28)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Colin Aveyard (29)
• Corporal Henry Garth Baggs (21)
• Flight Sergeant Alfred Thomas James Barnicott (20)
• Pilot Officer John Barritt (22)
• Sergeant Gordon Thomas Beitz (21)
• Flight Sergeant Keith Campbell Bennett (22)
• Pilot Officer Ivan Harold Betts (31)
• Sergeant George Stanley Bickerton (24)
• Sergeant John Bishop (20)
• Pilot Officer Frank Bruce Boaden (24)
• Sergeant Geoffrey Crisp (geoff) Boar (27)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth George Bowler (21)
• Sergeant James Bowrey (22)
• Flight Sergeant Edward Keith Forbes Brasher (25)
• Leading Aircraftman Harold Lockhart Spencer Brewer (24)
• Pilot Officer Valentine George Brough (21)
• Sergeant Ray Edward Brown
• Sergeant George Douglas Calder (24)
• Pilot Officer Robert Joseph Cartmell (24)
• Sergeant John Claridge Chambers (20)
• Sergeant Ralph Clarke (21)

See all 168 who died on 13 September →

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