The Channel Dash
12 February 1942 — The Channel Dash
- Date
- 12 February 1942
- Target
- The Channel Dash
- Force dispatched
- 127 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
190 airmen in this archive died on 12 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.
- Pilot Officer Alexander Richard Abbott (23)
- Sergeant Alfred Ernest Adlam (22)
- Flight Lieutenant George Allen (20)
- Sergeant Alexander Bain Anderson (31)
- Pilot Officer Henry Gordon Anderson (29)
- Squadron Leader William Andrew Anderson (24)
- Flying Officer Peter Alexander Annan (25)
- Pilot Officer Gordon Kenneth Armstrong (22)
- Sergeant Frederick William Ashfield
- Sergeant Douglas Bell Atkinson (24)
- Sergeant John Haycroft Henniker Baness (24)
- Aircraftman 1st Class Eric Joseph Nutley Leighton Barlow (22)
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Brightmore Bensley (21)
- Flight Sergeant Errol Francis Gordon Blair (27)
- Sergeant Bernard Paul Blowers (24)
- Pilot Officer Walter Frederick Bond (23)
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Havelock Brunt (20)
- Sergeant George Hollands Campbell (24)
- Sergeant John Canavan (28)
- Flight Lieutenant Percy Theodore Carden (57)
- Flying Officer Derek Guy Carter (22)
- Leading Aircraftman William Edwin Carter
- Sergeant Edward Thomas Albert Cartwright (23)
- Pilot Officer John Nicholson Cawsey
See all 190 who died on 12 February →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →