Rostock

Date

25 April 1942

Target

Rostock, Germany

Force dispatched

128 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

102 airmen in this archive died on 25 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 Sydney Kenneth Annesley (29)
• Flight Lieutenant Svatopluk Bachurek (27)
• Sergeant Edmund Ronald Baird (34)
• Lieutenant Ball (22)
• Flight Sergeant Richard Ballantyne (28)
• Pilot Officer John Albert Stokes Banting
• Aircraftman 1st Class Howard Baynham (30)
• Sergeant David Holley Bird
• Sergeant Thomas Cunningham Bird
• Sergeant Arthur Frank Blencowe (32)
• Lieutenant Booth (25)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Lorne Bray (23)
• Flight Sergeant Lucien David Brooks (21)
• Flight Sergeant Frank Arthur Brown (31)
• Flying Officer John Gibb Brown (28)
• Sergeant Harry Bircham Bullen (30)
• Sergeant Philip Harold Bullock (21)
• Group Captain Herbert Reginald Carefoot (37)
• Pilot Officer Donald Young Claxton (23)
• Group Captain Hugh Wolfe Corner (43)
• Pilot Officer Walter Ephraim Cripps (21)
• Sergeant Reginald Clifden Darnell
• Pilot Officer Geoffrey Maclennan Densem (28)
• Sergeant Percy George Detmold

See all 102 who died on 25 April →

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