Brest

Date

5 April 1943

Target

Brest, France

Force dispatched

15 aircraft

Aircraft lost

3

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

114 airmen in this archive died on 5 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.

• Warrant Officer David Thomas Andrew (24)
• Sergeant Eric James Andrew (28)
• Flying Officer Edward Francis Appleton (25)
• Sergeant Albert Charles Ash (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth James Barnwell (29)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Norman Beaton (22)
• Pilot Officer Norman Bertram (32)
• Sergeant Harold Edwin Blundell (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Edward William Roberts Bolton (21)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph John Britton (21)
• Sergeant Richmond Brough (25)
• Warrant Officer John Benjamin Burrows (21)
• Sergeant Vernon Clifford Burt (25)
• Flying Officer David Chalmers (20)
• Corporal Stephen Massingberd Coward
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Donald William Cresswell (18)
• Leading Aircraftman Alexander Calder Cuthbertson (35)
• Sergeant Robert Arthur Damms (21)
• Flight Lieutenant John Baillie Darroch (34)
• Sergeant James Keith Dodds (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Coke Du Bose
• Sergeant James Henry Lloyd Edwards (20)
• Sergeant Albert Rowland Evans (34)
• Flight Lieutenant William Joseph Dudley Fleming

See all 114 who died on 5 April →

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