Saarbrücken

Date

28 August 1942

Target

Saarbrücken, Germany

Force dispatched

113 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

287 airmen in this archive died on 28 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.

• Flight Lieutenant Dennis Adams (28)
• Sergeant Rhys Maelgwyn Alexander (23)
• Sergeant Edward Charles Allen (22)
• Flight Sergeant William Stansfield Allen (21)
• Flight Sergeant Arnold Herbert Amlin (24)
• Flying Officer Walter John Evelyn Ardley (28)
• Sergeant Robert Hugh Ashwell (21)
• Sergeant Charles Atkinson (25)
• Flight Sergeant Horace David Baittle
• Sergeant Norman Sargeant Ball (24)
• Flight Sergeant Hugh Barton-smith (26)
• Pilot Officer Edward Beale (28)
• Sergeant Eric Albert Berrett (22)
• Sergeant Thomas Bickers (33)
• Pilot Officer Byron Stanley Biden (27)
• Sergeant John Bingham
• Pilot Officer Ronald Albert Bingham (22)
• Pilot Officer Alan Fay Birley (27)
• Pilot Officer George Stanley Bishop (26)
• Flight Sergeant Barriemore Smallwood Blundall (22)
• Sergeant Maurice William Booth (22)
• Lieutenant Nigel Barclay Boyd (24)
• Sergeant John Breivis
• Pilot Officer Edward Arthur Rutherford Briant (33)

See all 287 who died on 28 August →

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