Oboe Trials

Date

31 December 1942

Target

Oboe Trials

Force dispatched

29 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

99 airmen in this archive died on 31 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.

• Lieutenant Baines (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Bernard Higson Barber (22)
• Corporal John Barnard (25)
• Sergeant John Bell
• Corporal Sydney Arthur Bolton (45)
• Pilot Officer Bruce Oswald Bown (30)
• Flight Sergeant Leslie Robert Brettle (20)
• Flight Sergeant Donald Charles Brooks (23)
• Flying Officer Harry Brooks (28)
• Sergeant Kenneth Alfred Brooks (19)
• Corporal Wilfred Brown
• Warrant Officer Cyril Mac Browning (29)
• Flying Officer Lloyd George Burke
• Pilot Officer William Burt (21)
• Sergeant Vernon Frederick Butcher (20)
• Sergeant Francis William Calladine
• Sergeant Andrew Campbell (21)
• Sergeant Staffa Kinloch Campbell (27)
• Sergeant Raymond Clyde Charlton (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas William Clancy (35)
• Pilot Officer Dennis Frederick Stephen Clark (20)
• Flying Officer Lawrence Samuel Clayton (22)
• Leading Aircraftman John Connor (53)
• Pilot Officer Robert Cowin (32)

See all 99 who died on 31 December →

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