Rostock

Date

26 April 1942

Target

Rostock, Germany

Force dispatched

109 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

104 airmen in this archive died on 26 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)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Norman Atkin
• Pilot Officer Ernest Derrick Bailey (21)
• Sergeant Gilbert Baker (26)
• Pilot Officer John Albert Stokes Banting
• Sergeant Frederick Bennett
• Sergeant Harold James Bennett
• Sergeant David Holley Bird
• Sergeant Thomas Cunningham Bird
• Sergeant Victor George Bolam (19)
• Lieutenant Booth (25)
• Sergeant William John Brandon (20)
• Sergeant Leonard Branton (26)
• Pilot Officer Henry Brener (28)
• Flight Sergeant Frank Arthur Brown (31)
• Pilot Officer Phil Clive Budd (22)
• Sergeant Philip Harold Bullock (21)
• Sergeant John Douglas Burnley (20)
• Sergeant Oswald Lindsay Clubb (20)
• Sergeant George William Craft (25)
• Pilot Officer Walter Ephraim Cripps (21)
• Sergeant Raymond Day (20)
• Sergeant Percy George Detmold
• Sergeant Vincent Arthur Doran (30)

See all 104 who died on 26 April →

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