Kiel

Date

25 February 1942

Target

Kiel, Germany

Force dispatched

61 aircraft

Aircraft lost

3

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

78 airmen in this archive died on 25 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.

• Flying Officer Charles Ronald Archibald (23)
• Pilot Officer Edward Akeroyd Bairstow (20)
• Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Herbert Bennett (21)
• Pupil Pilot Beukes (19)
• Flight Sergeant John Alexander Bissett
• Sergeant Alexander Bolton (21)
• Air Sergeant Brice (27)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Harold Latshaw Brown (30)
• Sergeant James Joseph Burke (24)
• Wing Commander Peter John Campbell Canney (27)
• Squadron Leader Geoffrey James Ian Clennell
• Second Lieutenant Coventry (21)
• Sergeant Clifford Francis Darwin (22)
• Second Lieutenant Herbert Dilworth (26)
• Flight Lieutenant Henry Augustine Dobbyn (22)
• Sergeant Alan Richard Brett Durie (21)
• Sergeant Dudley Harnett Dyson (27)
• Flight Sergeant John Henry Dyson (25)
• Sergeant Rupert Vivian Pereira Ennor (21)
• Sergeant George Edward Fox (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Iain Alasdair Fraser (20)
• Sergeant William Arthur Ivor Glanville (20)
• Sergeant William Allen Godfrey (21)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Hackney (20)

See all 78 who died on 25 February →

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