Trondheim

Date

27 April 1942

Target

Trondheim

Force dispatched

12 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

163 airmen in this archive died on 27 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 William Yarr Alderdice (24)
• Sergeant Eric Annable
• Flying Officer Richard John Askwith
• Aircraftman 1st Class Norman Atkin
• Leading Aircraftman Leslie Charles Atkins (26)
• Sergeant Sydney Walter George Avent (21)
• Pilot Officer Ernest Derrick Bailey (21)
• Pilot Officer Valden Leonard Bailey (24)
• Sergeant Gilbert Baker (26)
• Corporal Albert Banyard (21)
• Sergeant John Wallace Barber (24)
• Sergeant Ralph Batman (27)
• Sergeant Frederick Bennett
• Sergeant Harold James Bennett
• Leading Aircraftman Percival Francis Blackmore (35)
• Pilot Officer Carl Olaf Bodding
• Sergeant Victor George Bolam (19)
• Sergeant Hubert Allan Booth (30)
• Flying Officer John William Lloyd Botting
• Flight Sergeant Brian Walter Bowman (25)
• Sergeant William John Brandon (20)
• Sergeant Leonard Branton (26)
• Pilot Officer Henry Brener (28)
• Flight Sergeant Derek Arthur Bryant (27)

See all 163 who died on 27 April →

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