Lorient

Date

7 February 1943

Target

Lorient, France

Force dispatched

323 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

133 airmen in this archive died on 7 February 1943 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 Charles Frederick Abraham (29)
• Sergeant Archibald John Adams
• Sergeant Wilfred John Adams (30)
• Sergeant Francis John Allen (19)
• Sergeant Kenneth Henry Austin (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Edwin James Badkin (26)
• Sergeant Ronald Valentine Baker (21)
• Flight Sergeant James Robert Carl Barton (21)
• Flying Officer Peter Leslie Beesley (23)
• Sergeant Eugene Joseph Patrick Bergna (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Jean Thomas Berube (22)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Charles Bitten
• Warrant Officer Class II Harry Gordon Black (20)
• Sergeant Roy Benjamin Charles Bloom (33)
• Sergeant Alfred Leslie Bond (28)
• Sergeant Kenneth Bowley
• Sergeant Douglas Matthew Brackenridge (21)
• Flying Officer Hope Braine (28)
• Sergeant Eric Brindle (23)
• Sergeant Alfred Brian Burgess (19)
• Sergeant Hubert John Burnham (19)
• Sergeant Leonard Bygrave (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Beatty Elwood Campbell (26)
• Warrant Officer Class II Cornelius John Carmody

See all 133 who died on 7 February →

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