Rostock

Date

24 April 1942

Target

Rostock, Germany

Force dispatched

125 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

119 airmen in this archive died on 24 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.

• Warrant Officer John Seton Aitken (21)
• Pilot Officer Neville Neil Allen (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Svatopluk Bachurek (27)
• Sergeant Edmund Ronald Baird (34)
• Flight Sergeant Alexander B. Balinson (24)
• Lieutenant Ball (22)
• Flight Sergeant Richard Ballantyne (28)
• Pilot Officer Charles Bertram Barber (22)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Howard Baynham (30)
• Sergeant Arthur Frank Blencowe (32)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Lorne Bray (23)
• Flight Sergeant Prokop Brazda (26)
• Flight Sergeant Lucien David Brooks (21)
• Flying Officer John Gibb Brown (28)
• Sergeant Maurice William Buckley
• Sergeant Harry Bircham Bullen (30)
• Group Captain Herbert Reginald Carefoot (37)
• Pilot Officer Oswald John Channon (24)
• Flight Sergeant Arthur Ernest Charron
• Sergeant Thomas William Chaston (21)
• Pilot Officer Donald Young Claxton (23)
• Group Captain Hugh Wolfe Corner (43)
• Sergeant Reginald Clifden Darnell
• Sergeant Phillip Bruce Dauncey (20)

See all 119 who died on 24 April →

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