Holland

Date

27 August 1942

Target

Holland

Force dispatched

18 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

284 airmen in this archive died on 27 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.

• Sergeant Rhys Maelgwyn Alexander (23)
• Sergeant Edward Charles Allen (22)
• Flight Sergeant Arnold Herbert Amlin (24)
• Sergeant Robert Hugh Ashwell (21)
• Sergeant Norman Sargeant Ball (24)
• Flight Sergeant Hugh Barton-smith (26)
• Sergeant Noel Gordon Bass (23)
• Sergeant Allan William Baxter (23)
• Pilot Officer Edward Beale (28)
• Sergeant James Bellinger
• Sergeant Eric Albert Berrett (22)
• Sergeant Thomas Bickers (33)
• Pilot Officer Byron Stanley Biden (27)
• Sergeant John Bingham
• Pilot Officer Ronald Albert Bingham (22)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Ronald Bird (22)
• Pilot Officer George Stanley Bishop (26)
• Sergeant Ronald James Blenkarn (21)
• Sergeant Archibald Charles Blogg (27)
• Flight Sergeant Barriemore Smallwood Blundall (22)
• Sergeant Alfred Kenneth Bonser (22)
• Lieutenant Nigel Barclay Boyd (24)
• Pilot Officer Edward Arthur Rutherford Briant (33)
• Sergeant Charles James Broomhead

See all 284 who died on 27 August →

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