Wismar

Date

23 September 1942

Target

Wismar

Force dispatched

83 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

128 airmen in this archive died on 23 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 Howard Charles Baker (35)
• Pilot Officer Richard Charles Edgar Bassom
• Flight Sergeant James Alexander Beaton
• Leading Aircraftman Arthur Beaty (20)
• Sergeant John Bennett (20)
• Sergeant Thomas Ralph Bevan (19)
• Sergeant Dennis Robert Bird (20)
• Pilot Officer Albert Gaston Thomas Bradley (26)
• Squadron Leader Vernon Maxwell Bright (26)
• Sergeant Albert James Jarvis Brooks (21)
• Sergeant George Brothwell (29)
• Leading Aircraftman Robert Francis Brown (20)
• Flight Sergeant Mervyn Kevin Burke (24)
• Flying Officer Robert Butler (28)
• Sergeant Nial Thurlow Byrne (27)
• Sergeant Kenneth Francis Cadd (21)
• Flying Officer Arthur James Calvert (26)
• Sergeant James William Carnley (23)
• Sergeant Arthur Carr (27)
• Sergeant Alfred Henry Coalbran (21)
• Sergeant Kenneth Coates (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Norman Isaac Cock (21)
• Sergeant John Arthur Collum
• Sergeant Sydney Cooper (26)

See all 128 who died on 23 September →

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