Emden

Date

17 February 1942

Target

Emden, Germany

Force dispatched

17 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

74 airmen in this archive died on 17 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 James Richard Branston Adams (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Dennis Harold Adlam (20)
• Warrant Officer Nathaniel Arnold (25)
• Sergeant William Leonard Ashplant
• Sergeant Horace Baker (22)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Charles Bradley
• Sergeant John Bernard Brady (21)
• Pilot Officer Leonard Edward Gordon Buck (30)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Thomas Buckingham (31)
• Corporal Oliver Frank Cheverton (40)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Chua Keng Chin
• Flight Sergeant Bernard Frederick Culf (22)
• Sergeant Isaac Henry Cunningham (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Canada Kirby Dagg
• Sergeant Cyril Caradoe Davies
• Flight Sergeant Cecil Thomas Deane (25)
• Sergeant Cyril Raymond Dickeson
• Pilot Officer Cecil Coope Dickson (20)
• Sergeant Henry Albert Driscoll (28)
• Sergeant Frederick Dutton (20)
• Leading Aircraftman James William Ellis (21)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Jonathan Fairbrass (33)
• Flight Sergeant Reginald Fenney (30)
• Flying Officer John Angus Ferguson (22)

See all 74 who died on 17 February →

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