Brest

Date

3 January 1942

Target

Brest, France

Force dispatched

29 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

68 airmen in this archive died on 3 January 1942 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 Harold Charles John Althans (23)
• Flying Officer Stanley Walter Andersen
• Pilot Officer Allenby Leslie Baker (23)
• Flight Sergeant Donald Wood Beirnes (22)
• Flight Sergeant George Milburn Bigglestone (21)
• Sergeant Paul Chaning-pearce
• Flying Officer Alec Macnaughton Christie (26)
• Flight Sergeant John William Colpitts
• Sergeant Martin John Comer (33)
• Sergeant Bernard Bradley Connell (20)
• Sergeant Albert John Copping (26)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Erval Eric Cormier (25)
• Sergeant Geoffrey Brian Cowen (21)
• Flight Sergeant Stanley Walter Cradduck (21)
• Sergeant Albert Thomas Crocker
• Leading Aircraftman Morris Edington (40)
• Leading Aircraftman Abraham Elton Evans (24)
• Flying Officer Alexander James Fraser
• Flight Sergeant Baxter Froude (39)
• Sergeant Albert Harry Gardner (26)
• Corporal John Granard (34)
• Sergeant Albert Lewis Guy
• Leading Aircraftman Charles William Hall
• Pilot Officer Robert Petrie Hay (22)

See all 68 who died on 3 January →

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