Brest

Date

9 January 1942

Target

Brest, France

Force dispatched

82 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

106 airmen in this archive died on 9 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)
• Flying Officer George Reginald Bayley
• Sergeant John Bayliss (23)
• Sergeant John Charles Bradshaw (21)
• Sergeant Edgar Harold Brown (26)
• Sergeant Thomas Leslie Brown (21)
• Sergeant Arnold George Browne (30)
• Sergeant Douglas Bryan (24)
• Flight Sergeant Sidney Reginald Bult (19)
• Pilot Officer Wilfred Henry Burnham (21)
• Sergeant Douglas Butterworth (20)
• Pilot Officer Eric John Campbell (23)
• Captain Carter (40)
• Air Mechanic Cheyne (32)
• Sergeant Leslie Alexander Churcher
• Flying Officer Theodore Marcus Clark (26)
• Flight Sergeant Leslie Clarke (23)
• Pilot Officer Peter Thrale Close
• Sergeant Edgar Frederick John Cooper (26)
• Flying Officer Arthur Henry Cadell Corser (25)
• Sergeant Thomas Alfred Delaney
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Emile De Lorme

See all 106 who died on 9 January →

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