Operation Robinson
17 October 1942 — Le Creusot
- Date
- 17 October 1942
- Target
- Le Creusot, France
- Force dispatched
- 94 aircraft
- Aircraft lost
- 1
Narrative
Daylight raid by 94 Lancasters of 5 Group against the Schneider armaments works at Le Creusot in occupied France.
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
53 airmen in this archive died on 17 October 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.
- Corporal Clifford John Anderson (22)
- Flight Sergeant James Sangster Anderson (22)
- Flying Officer John Ellsworth Avise (30)
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Ernest Barnett (32)
- Sergeant Jan Blaha (33)
- Sergeant Eric Herbert Boreham (30)
- Pilot Officer Frantisek Bulis (26)
- Pilot Officer Antonin Bunzl (23)
- Sergeant Josef Cech (31)
- Sergeant Kenneth Stuart Chalmers (19)
- Squadron Leader William Duncan Corr
- Flight Lieutenant Alexander Noel David (53)
- Sergeant Richard James Delve (21)
- Sergeant Joseph Ernest Desjardins (24)
- Flight Sergeant Frantisek Dolezal (28)
- Sergeant Owen Glynne Edwards (29)
- Flying Officer Cecil Ernest Franklin (21)
- Leading Aircraftman Raymond Charles Frewin (27)
- Pilot Officer Bedrich Gissubel (32)
- Sergeant Viliam Gotzlinger (31)
- Flight Lieutenant Vaclav Hanka (22)
- Pilot Officer John Douglas Hayes (25)
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Higson
- Sergeant Leonard Hodgson (31)