Lorient

Date

13 February 1943

Target

Lorient, France

Force dispatched

466 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

185 airmen in this archive died on 13 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 Francis Henry Allen (21)
• Flying Officer Ronald Allin (32)
• Pilot Officer Spencer Hewitt Amys (21)
• Flying Officer William Alexander McLean Archibald
• Leading Aircraftman Albert Edward Austin (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Peter Edwin Ayscough (25)
• Warrant Officer John Howard Bailey (31)
• Flying Officer Redmond Lewis Barnett (26)
• Flying Officer John Morling Bell
• Sergeant Cecil Gordon Bennett (27)
• Corporal Robert Beverley (21)
• Sergeant Donald Robert Bishop (20)
• Wing Commander Sedley Stewart Blanchard
• Flying Officer Roger Bokobza (21)
• Sergeant Dennis Booker (22)
• Sergeant Russell Charles Heath Boulton (23)
• Sergeant John Henry Bousfield (27)
• Sergeant Jack Bowler (28)
• Pilot Officer Henry Boyer (26)
• Warrant Officer Henry Alec Brindle (28)
• Sergeant Eric Ansell Brown (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Peter Edwyn Elkford Brown (32)
• Leading Aircraftman Henry Buckley (30)
• Sergeant Robert Erskine Burt (27)

See all 185 who died on 13 February →

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