Brest

Date

8 January 1942

Target

Brest, France

Force dispatched

151 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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

95 airmen in this archive died on 8 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 Eric Donald Aberdeen
• Corporal Frederick Andrews (30)
• Sergeant William Samuel Charles Atherton (22)
• Sergeant Albert Sydney Austin
• Flying Officer Alan Rupert Baster (25)
• Flying Officer George Reginald Bayley
• Sergeant John Bayliss (23)
• Pilot Officer Robert Birnie (24)
• Sergeant John Charles Bradshaw (21)
• Sergeant Thomas Leslie Brown (21)
• Sergeant Arnold George Browne (30)
• Sergeant Douglas Bryan (24)
• Flight Sergeant Sidney Reginald Bult (19)
• Sergeant Thomas Frederick Burn (20)
• Pilot Officer Wilfred Henry Burnham (21)
• Sergeant Douglas Butterworth (20)
• Captain Carter (40)
• Flying Officer Theodore Marcus Clark (26)
• Flight Sergeant Leslie Clarke (23)
• Flying Officer Arthur Henry Cadell Corser (25)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Emile De Lorme
• Leading Aircraftman Donald Peter Dick-cleland (19)
• Sergeant Robert Leslie James Edmonds (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Sydney Adnil Pawle Fischer

See all 95 who died on 8 January →

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