Den Helder

Date

19 February 1943

Target

Den Helder

Force dispatched

12 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

147 airmen in this archive died on 19 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.

• Leading Aircraftman James Adam (22)
• Sergeant Robert Allan (21)
• Sergeant Ernest Arthur Arnold
• Sergeant Ivor William Arnold
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Jean Charles Arpin (23)
• Flight Sergeant Harry Russell Bailey (21)
• Sergeant Ronald Bailey (26)
• Sergeant Howard Anthony Bastick (22)
• Sergeant Edward Percy George Bayliss (20)
• Warrant Officer Class II George James Beresford
• Sergeant Percy Blanch (28)
• Sergeant Derek Arnold Booth (17)
• Lieutenant Garth William Booysen (23)
• Sergeant Arnold Harvey Borrett (25)
• Sergeant David Orr Bowie (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Patrick Brennan
• Flight Lieutenant John Alexander Bright (24)
• Flight Sergeant Harry Lyle Brown (20)
• Warrant Officer Class II Carleton Ernest Caldwell (20)
• Flying Officer Lawrence Bartlett Carson (29)
• Pilot Officer Thomas Edward Case (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Vincent Henry Cockman (20)
• Sergeant Robert Charles Collins (19)
• Sergeant Thomas Alfred Constable (21)

See all 147 who died on 19 February →

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