Brest

Date

11 January 1942

Target

Brest, France

Force dispatched

16 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

70 airmen in this archive died on 11 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.

• Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph Fitzgerald Agar (28)
• Flight Lieutenant Allen John Frederick Allen-white (27)
• Pilot Officer Michael Patrick Angland (23)
• Pilot Officer Edward George Baker (32)
• Sergeant Leonard Alec Baker (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Arthur Robert Barton (28)
• Sergeant Bernard Samuel Bates (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Ernest Lockey John Beaumont (22)
• Pilot Officer Thomas Lloyd Bennett (22)
• Sergeant Alexander Russell Bernard (21)
• Sergeant Frederick John Blenkinsopp (21)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick George Bradley (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Daniel Bresnahan (20)
• Pilot Officer Wilfred Henry Burnham (21)
• Sergeant Henry John Bye (20)
• Flying Officer George Douglas Calderhead (23)
• Pilot Officer Maurice Melton Campbell (27)
• Sergeant William Cannon
• Sergeant John Cardwell (25)
• Flight Sergeant James Redfearn Chalmers
• Sergeant Neil Douglas Clayton (22)
• Flying Officer Samuel William Clifford (24)
• Aircraftman 1st Class William Thomas Desnos (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Leslie Dixon (21)

See all 70 who died on 11 January →

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