Dunkirk

Date

27 February 1943

Target

Dunkirk

Force dispatched

24 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

128 airmen in this archive died on 27 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)
• Squadron Leader Eric Hamilton Barkley (27)
• Flying Officer Ronald Charles Bell (20)
• Sergeant David William Belsham (19)
• Sergeant Cyril Seymour Berger (20)
• Sergeant Robert McBain Boswell (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Roy Gordon Bradley (19)
• Flying Officer Graham Brayshaw (25)
• Sergeant Reginald Brookes (22)
• Sergeant Herbert Gordon Brooks (28)
• Sergeant Robert George Frederick Bryant
• Sergeant Jack Bunce
• Flight Lieutenant Charles Mervyn Burfield (22)
• Sergeant Barry Charles Burton (20)
• Sergeant John Steen Campbell (34)
• Flight Sergeant Keith Lauchlan Campbell (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Henry Victor Clark (43)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Thomas Clifton
• Flying Officer Dundonald Nelson Cochrane (23)
• Sergeant Ronald Alfred William Cockram (21)
• Flight Sergeant John Dunham Correll (23)
• Warrant Officer Class II Glen Howard Corrie
• Sergeant William Pulteney Corrie (30)
• Sergeant Leonard Ashby Court (23)

See all 128 who died on 27 February →

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