Wilhelmshaven

Date

14 September 1942

Target

Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Force dispatched

22 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

192 airmen in this archive died on 14 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)
• Sergeant Alistair William Allen (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Colin Aveyard (29)
• Corporal Henry Garth Baggs (21)
• Corporal Douglas Harold Barnes (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)
• Sergeant James Bowrey (22)
• Sergeant Charles Henry Brandon (24)
• Flight Sergeant Edward Keith Forbes Brasher (25)
• Sergeant Norman Frederick Brassington
• Leading Aircraftman Harold Lockhart Spencer Brewer (24)
• Pilot Officer Valentine George Brough (21)
• Sergeant Alexander George Brown (21)
• Corporal John Frederick Brown (35)

See all 192 who died on 14 September →

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