Le Havre

Date

2 April 1942

Target

Le Havre, France

Force dispatched

49 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

125 airmen in this archive died on 2 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
• Pilot Officer John Fraser Anderson (19)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Harold Andrews Baker (21)
• Lieutenant Bartels
• Sergeant Albert Henry Dickebusch Barton (27)
• Pilot Officer Thomas Best (23)
• Sergeant Gerard Vincent Brennan (21)
• Flight Sergeant Malcolm Bunting
• 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)
• Corporal Francis Albert Harry Cliffe (22)
• Sergeant Raymond James Coates (23)
• Flight Sergeant Hector Thomas Moore Cooper (20)
• Flying Officer Peter Kempthorne Crowther (29)
• Sergeant Henry Eric Cruze (22)
• Sergeant Claude Francis Curtis
• Sergeant Clarence William Edward Davey (22)
• Sergeant John Osborn Davies
• Sergeant Eric Dixon (20)

See all 125 who died on 2 April →

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