Kiel

Date

26 February 1942

Target

Kiel, Germany

Force dispatched

49 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

113 airmen in this archive died on 26 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 Harold Edward Aspey (26)
• Sergeant Edmund Sidney Ayton (26)
• Pilot Officer Edward Akeroyd Bairstow (20)
• Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Herbert Bennett (21)
• Flight Sergeant John Alexander Bissett
• Sergeant Hubert Waddy Blackmore
• Sergeant Reginald Alfred Bland (21)
• Sergeant Alexander Bolton (21)
• Lieutenant Thennis J. P. Botha
• Air Sergeant Brice (27)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Harold Latshaw Brown (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Maurice Clayton (23)
• Sergeant Joseph Walter Connell (19)
• Second Lieutenant Coventry (21)
• Sergeant Tom Crump
• Sergeant Clifford Francis Darwin (22)
• Pilot Officer Christian Georges Auguste J. Deffontaine (26)
• Pilot Officer Peter Satterswaite Devonshire (20)
• Sergeant Frank Dickinson
• Second Lieutenant Herbert Dilworth (26)
• Flight Sergeant John Henry Dyson (25)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Stewart William Edson (31)
• Sergeant Rupert Vivian Pereira Ennor (21)
• Sergeant John Arthur Eves (32)

See all 113 who died on 26 February →

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