Brest

Date

13 August 1944

Target

Brest, France

Force dispatched

54 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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

154 airmen in this archive died on 13 August 1944 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.

• Flying Officer Douglas Andrew Adams
• Flight Sergeant John Alfred Adams (21)
• Flight Sergeant William Ronald Andrew (22)
• Pilot Officer John French Andrews (30)
• Pilot Officer Eric Ball (24)
• Warrant Officer Class I Bezuidenhout
• Flying Officer John Bilbe (33)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Patrick Birmingham
• Flight Sergeant Eric Alan Bock (21)
• Flying Officer Charles Stewart Bogle (21)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Brayne
• Flight Lieutenant William Wood Lindsay Brown (27)
• Flight Sergeant Irvin Gordon Thomas Brownlee
• Flying Officer Robert James Burns (30)
• Flight Sergeant John Kean Burnside (32)
• Pilot Officer Henry Andrew Burt (32)
• Flying Officer John Harold Busby (24)
• Flight Sergeant Roy Wallace Butler (19)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Sutton Camier (20)
• Lieutenant F. Russell Campbell (18)
• Lieutenant Caro (27)
• Warrant Officer Class I Victor Carroll (26)
• Pilot Officer Orville Francis Compton (22)
• Lieutenant Percy Gordon Coutts

See all 154 who died on 13 August →

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