Le Havre

Date

1 April 1942

Command

Bomber Command

Target

Le Havre, France

Force dispatched

57 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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

153 airmen in this archive died on 1 April 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.

• Sergeant Edward Thomas Albrighton
• Sergeant William Philip Ashun (26)
• Flight Lieutenant Edward Donald Baker (23)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Harold Andrews Baker (21)
• Sergeant Albert Henry Dickebusch Barton (27)
• Pilot Officer Thomas Best (23)
• Wing Commander Samuel McCaughey Boal
• Pilot Officer John Leslie Bradbury
• Sergeant Melvyn Hamilton Brandon
• Sergeant Gerard Vincent Brennan (21)
• Sergeant Sydney Burtwell
• Flight Sergeant Arthur Allen Bussell (24)
• Sergeant George Cant (21)
• Sergeant George William Carter (21)
• Sergeant Harold Cartwright
• Sergeant Arthur Henry Cassam (21)
• Sergeant Harry Chilvers (26)
• Sergeant John Chivers (22)
• Sergeant Harry Clarke (21)
• Sergeant John Stanley Clarke
• Sergeant Raymond James Coates (23)
• Flying Officer Peter Kempthorne Crowther (29)
• Sergeant Henry Eric Cruze (22)
• Flight Sergeant Walter George Cunningham (36)

See all 153 who died on 1 April →

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