Flensburg

Date

18 August 1942

Target

Flensburg

Force dispatched

118 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

229 airmen in this archive died on 18 August 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.

• Pilot Officer Kivell Harold William Alderton (23)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Cyril Kenneth Allen (19)
• Corporal Rex Arthur Appleby (27)
• Sergeant William Charles Bacon (28)
• Leading Aircraftman Ernest Harold Bambridge (33)
• Flight Sergeant Stirling David Banks (19)
• Pilot Officer James Edgar Barton (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Carl Adrian Beach
• Sergeant Alfred Ronald Beaven (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Karel Becvar
• Sergeant William Beeley (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Ryding Bennette (26)
• Pilot Officer Elroy Fenwick Bent (19)
• Squadron Leader Alex Edward Berry (25)
• Sergeant Charles Black (29)
• Sergeant Eric Albert Blore (21)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Britain Borrett (27)
• Flight Sergeant John Alexander Bowditch (26)
• Sergeant Austin Stanley Boyd (32)
• Sergeant Alexander John Boyne (21)
• Flying Officer Rodney Broad (38)
• Pilot Officer John Neville Brookhouse (25)
• Leading Aircraftman David Campbell Brown (19)
• Pilot Officer Earl Herbert Brown

See all 229 who died on 18 August →

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