Brest

Date

3 April 1943

Target

Brest, France

Force dispatched

21 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

294 airmen in this archive died on 3 April 1943 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 Sidney George Adams (17)
• Flight Sergeant Beverley William Agar (26)
• Sergeant Eric William Aldridge (32)
• Corporal John Alexander (21)
• Sergeant Harold Alford (23)
• Flying Officer Charles Robert Cecil Austin Allberry (31)
• Flight Sergeant David Archibald (21)
• Sergeant James Carleton Aston (26)
• Sergeant Frederick Hugh Austin
• Sergeant Leonard Edward Ayres (25)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick William Bacon (26)
• Sergeant Albert Ronald Baker (18)
• Sergeant Christopher Francis (doogie) Ball (20)
• Sergeant Robert Walton Barker
• Flight Sergeant John Alexander Peach Bartlett (21)
• Squadron Leader Anthony Richard Henry Barton (29)
• Warrant Officer Class II Walter Stanley Beatty (23)
• Sergeant Robinson Bee
• Sergeant Reginald Percival Bilham (21)
• Sergeant Cedric Leslie Billington (30)
• Sergeant William Billington
• Corporal William Alfred Birch (38)
• Pilot Officer Charles Noola Black (22)
• Flying Officer Gregory James Black (30)

See all 294 who died on 3 April →

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