Brest

Date

6 February 1942

Target

Brest, France

Force dispatched

21 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

107 airmen in this archive died on 6 February 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 Richard Frank Anderson (25)
• Pilot Officer John Percival Bartlett
• Sergeant Norman Battram (30)
• Sergeant Allan Bennett (30)
• Sergeant Douglas Leonard Bennett (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Raymond Alan Berry (19)
• Sergeant Robert Anthony Billington (20)
• Sergeant George Alexander Blackwood (21)
• Sergeant Eric Bland (19)
• Sergeant John Blight (29)
• Leading Aircraftman Leonard George Blower (21)
• Sergeant Arnold Geoffrey Bocock (25)
• Sergeant Allan Theodore Bott (23)
• Sergeant Lambert Philip Bow (20)
• Sergeant Bernard Edward Brown
• Sergeant Edward Brown (24)
• Flight Sergeant Gordon Russell Cameron (22)
• Sergeant William Andrew Campbell (23)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Edward Carroll (22)
• Sergeant Bernard Hugh Cassidy (24)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Eric George Chilton (27)
• Flight Sergeant Norman Clare (20)
• Corporal Albert Cox (23)
• Sergeant John Herbert Arthur Cox (22)

See all 107 who died on 6 February →

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