Vegesack

Date

23 September 1942

Target

Vegesack

Force dispatched

12 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

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) →