Dortmund

Date

15 April 1942

Target

Dortmund, Germany

Force dispatched

152 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

108 airmen in this archive died on 15 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 Alan William Amey (25)
• Sergeant Lloyd Livingstone Armour (21)
• Flight Sergeant Douglas Maclear Atkinson (23)
• Pilot Officer Richard George Banks (28)
• Flying Officer Gordon Herbert Batchelor (23)
• Sergeant Thomas Hubert Beament (30)
• Sergeant William Allan Beard (22)
• Pilot Officer George Roxberry Bland (20)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Boisvert (27)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Harold Walter Charles Bond (19)
• Sergeant Stanley Briggs (27)
• Sergeant Horace Stanley Brown (30)
• Flight Sergeant William Alexander Coulson Browne (25)
• Sergeant Peter Sydney Brunsdon (24)
• Sergeant Basil Nora N. Burnett (21)
• Warrant Officer William Lucas Constable (32)
• Flight Sergeant Dennis George Stanley Corden
• Flight Sergeant John Cormack (22)
• Leading Aircraftman John Connell Cowan
• Sergeant Victor George Deacon (21)
• Sergeant James Richard Waclaw De Rzonca (20)
• Sergeant Alexander Charles Frederick Digby (20)
• Pilot Officer Andrew Downie (21)
• Sergeant Oliver Raymond East

See all 108 who died on 15 April →

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