Le Havre

Date

30 April 1942

Target

Le Havre, France

Force dispatched

24 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

59 airmen in this archive died on 30 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.

• Flight Sergeant William Dracas Ashley (22)
• Pilot Officer Ernest John Beasley (27)
• Flight Sergeant Horace Kempton Bedwell (21)
• Pilot Officer Roy Stuart Beveridge (20)
• Sergeant Eric Boaler (21)
• Sergeant Dallas Boyce (22)
• Sergeant Gordon Wesley Burkholder (43)
• Leading Aircraftman Jack Buzan (22)
• Flight Sergeant Stanley Frederick Chadwick
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Roy Clayton (23)
• Sergeant Edmund Cullinane (32)
• Leading Aircraftman Edward Henry Dailey (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Maurice Robert Davis (21)
• Squadron Leader Kenneth Wykeham Edwards (33)
• Corporal Samuel Ellison
• Pupil Pilot Enright (24)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Raymond John Figgins (19)
• Sergeant Douglas Ronald Freear
• Flight Sergeant Harold Theakston Gibbs
• Flight Lieutenant Richard William Gilbert Holdsworth (31)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Stephen George Kirkham (34)
• Leading Aircraftman Herman Carl George Kleinau (26)
• Sergeant Arthur Horace Lee (27)
• Flight Sergeant Gordon Randolph Lefebvre (35)

See all 59 who died on 30 April →

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