Lorient

Date

15 April 1943

Command

Bomber Command

Target

Lorient, France

Force dispatched

23 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

218 airmen in this archive died on 15 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.

• Sergeant James Green Adam (30)
• Pilot Officer Michael Cyriates Anastassiades
• Leading Aircraftman Edward Leonard Andrews (42)
• Sergeant Leslie Judson Ayers (24)
• Flight Sergeant Jacques Gordon Baker (21)
• Flight Sergeant Lawrence William Baldwin (23)
• Warrant Officer Class II Raymond James Barnes (26)
• Flight Lieutenant Cuthbert Roderick Barrett (27)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Alan Barrett (20)
• Warrant Officer Class II Lloyd Wallace Bartman (21)
• Pilot Officer Albert Henry Bayliss (23)
• Sergeant Ronald Francis Beaumont
• Flight Sergeant Bertie Joseph August Bessette
• Sergeant William Frederick Biggs (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Richard Barnett Blake (27)
• Flight Sergeant Cyril Bourne (21)
• Sergeant James Boyd (19)
• Flight Sergeant Michael Albert Edward Bradford (27)
• Flying Officer Edgar Brearley (26)
• Flight Sergeant Ansell Edward Britten-jones (21)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick James Britton
• Flight Sergeant Arthur Brown
• Sergeant Roland Brown (24)
• Flying Officer Sydney Brown (25)

See all 218 who died on 15 April →

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