Lorient

Date

16 February 1943

Target

Lorient, France

Force dispatched

377 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

73 airmen in this archive died on 16 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 Thomas Johnstone Anderson (25)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Clarence Fred Brown
• Flight Lieutenant Orlan Roderick Brown
• Flying Officer James Stenhouse Brydon (29)
• Sergeant Douglas Campbell (24)
• Sergeant Stanley William Charles Cannell (31)
• Sergeant Douglas Eric Cardwell (23)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Henry Caswell (27)
• Flying Officer Edward Henry Cave-browne (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Frederick Gerald Hudson Chalk
• Flight Lieutenant Stuart Gordon Collins (21)
• Flying Officer Stuart McIntyre Connacher (25)
• Sergeant James Muir Cousin (21)
• Pilot Officer Geoffrey Knowles Dearden (21)
• Sergeant David Dunnett (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Vaughan Gothrick Welsby Engstrom (29)
• Sergeant John Findlater (23)
• Sergeant Herbert Charles Ford (27)
• Corporal Ernest Sydney Freeman (26)
• Flying Officer Lionel Edward Charles Gagnon (24)
• Warrant Officer Frederick Cleveland Gallop (46)
• Leading Aircraftman Barry Fitzgerald Garrad (19)
• Flying Officer Arnold Irwin Gilson (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas Joseph Goodwin (22)

See all 73 who died on 16 February →

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