Laon

Date

13 December 1942

Target

Laon

Force dispatched

10 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

94 airmen in this archive died on 13 December 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 John Charles Anderson (23)
• Flying Officer Frederick Edward Ayers (24)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Bailey (20)
• Flight Sergeant James Douglas Barbour (22)
• Sergeant Rupert Bentley (32)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class John Roger Berglund (25)
• Sergeant Richard George Board (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Sidney Isaac Bressloff (21)
• Sergeant Ronald Cecil Brinkley (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Harry Burroughs (29)
• Sergeant William John Henry Camlin (28)
• Leading Aircraftman John Campbell (24)
• Sergeant Russell George Causier (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Charles Geoffrey Chadwick (20)
• Second Lieutenant Chambers (19)
• Sergeant Cyril George Clegg (23)
• Flying Officer Leigh Walter Denis Clulee
• Flying Officer Marcus James Cowan (26)
• Flight Sergeant Eric Crowe (25)
• Corporal Jesse Davis (40)
• Sergeant Charles Frederick Day (20)
• Sergeant Harry Frederick Dell (24)
• Warrant Officer Class II Gordon McLeod Dunn (23)
• Sergeant Francis Leo Durnan (30)

See all 94 who died on 13 December →

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