Paris

Date

5 April 1942

Target

Paris

Force dispatched

14 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

91 airmen in this archive died on 5 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.

• Flying Officer Arthur William Abbott
• Flight Sergeant Ernest Arthur Allen
• Flying Officer Ludwik Karol Assman (26)
• Leading Aircraftman James Henry Attwood (25)
• Sergeant Zdzisław Babraj (22)
• Sergeant Albert Edward Bloor (26)
• Pilot Officer Paul Rigby Sinclair Brooke (29)
• Pilot Officer Douglas Macgillvary Brown (21)
• Sergeant Robert William Burdon Brown (22)
• Sergeant Allan John Browne (25)
• Pilot Officer William Finlay Budge (24)
• Flying Officer Garth Elliot Caswell (24)
• Sergeant Philip John Coleman (21)
• Sergeant Edward Frank Collins (27)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class James Lawton Cunningham (38)
• Sergeant Alexander Thomas Edward Daniells (25)
• Sergeant Frank Arthur Dann (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Samuel Douglas Dean
• Sergeant William Cecil Friscourt Dodd (26)
• Sergeant Ronald Harry Emery
• Flying Officer John Ward Evatt (22)
• Leading Aircraftman William Arthur Fisher (27)
• Pilot Officer James Donald Alexander Foley (25)
• Flying Officer Donald Geffene (21)

See all 91 who died on 5 April →

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