Dunkirk

Date

26 February 1943

Target

Dunkirk

Force dispatched

33 aircraft

Aircraft lost

3

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

200 airmen in this archive died on 26 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 Alfred Henry Reginald Aggett (27)
• Flight Sergeant Richard Ashdown (21)
• Sergeant Donald Stuart Bates (21)
• Flying Officer Ronald Charles Bell (20)
• Flying Officer Robert Lowell Benson (23)
• Warrant Officer Class II Lloyd Adolf Bernick
• Sergeant William Hughes Bevan (21)
• Sergeant George Beverley (26)
• Sergeant Stanley Boden (20)
• Pilot Officer John Basil Bond (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II William Boon (22)
• Sergeant Robert McBain Boswell (27)
• Sergeant Thomas Bows (31)
• Leading Aircraftman Roy Gordon Bradley (19)
• Sergeant Henry Easton Bradshaw (21)
• Flying Officer Graham Brayshaw (25)
• Sergeant Herbert Gordon Brooks (28)
• Pilot Officer Edwin Gordon Kingsley Bullen (22)
• Sergeant Jack Bunce
• Pilot Officer Reginald Silvester Burgher (29)
• Sergeant Barry Charles Burton (20)
• Sergeant George Caldwell (21)
• Flight Sergeant William Wilson Cameron (27)
• Flight Sergeant Keith Lauchlan Campbell (19)

See all 200 who died on 26 February →

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