Wilhelmshaven

Date

27 February 1942

Target

Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Force dispatched

33 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

99 airmen in this archive died on 27 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)
• Sergeant Leonard Samuel Barker (27)
• Flying Officer Mervyn William Bateman (30)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Frank Harold Bennier
• Sergeant Hubert Waddy Blackmore
• Sergeant Reginald Alfred Bland (21)
• Lieutenant Thennis J. P. Botha
• Flight Sergeant Raeside Harley Brown (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Graham Butt (19)
• Pilot Officer Alexander Calderwood (26)
• Pilot Officer Hugh Basil Carleton
• Aircraftman 1st Class John Lundy Carter (24)
• Pilot Officer Thomas Walker Caston
• Sergeant Ronald Henry Charles Clark (21)
• Flight Sergeant Gerald Francis Clarke (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Maurice Clayton (23)
• Sergeant Joseph Walter Connell (19)
• Pilot Officer Henry Cookson
• Sergeant Tom Crump
• Leading Aircraftman Albert Alexander Davies (23)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Reginald Eric Deards (22)
• Pilot Officer Christian Georges Auguste J. Deffontaine (26)
• Pilot Officer Peter Satterswaite Devonshire (20)

See all 99 who died on 27 February →

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