Wilhelmshaven

Date

24 February 1943

Target

Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Force dispatched

115 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

101 airmen in this archive died on 24 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.

• Flight Sergeant James Banks (22)
• Sergeant Thomas Bertram Barfoot (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Hugh Watson Biddulph (30)
• Sergeant Arthur Clarence Blaber (31)
• Flying Officer Philip Bosloy (24)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Henry Bray
• Leading Aircraftman James Scott Cavill (23)
• Flying Officer Albert Dudley Chivers (30)
• Warrant Officer Class II Lloyd William Clark (21)
• Flight Sergeant Norman George Clark (22)
• Flight Sergeant Peter Comrie (27)
• Sergeant Kenneth Owen Court (20)
• Flight Sergeant George Alexander Croall (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Donald Joseph Curtin (25)
• Sergeant William Ricard Davies (27)
• Pilot Officer Richard John Secord Dawson
• Sergeant John Dudley (20)
• Flying Officer Jack Dudley Edwards (21)
• Flight Lieutenant William Alexander Stevenson Elder
• Sergeant Edmund Blake Farren (24)
• Sergeant John Stanley Fayle
• Sergeant Peter Noel Fellowes (22)
• Flying Officer Frederick Thomas Fromm (30)
• Leading Aircraftman John William Glew (21)

See all 101 who died on 24 February →

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