Hamburg

Date

14 January 1942

Target

Hamburg, Germany

Force dispatched

95 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

116 airmen in this archive died on 14 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 Ronald Alfred Walter Abrahams (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Basil John Adam (22)
• Sergeant Basil Andrew Adams (19)
• Sergeant Leonard Arthur Angel (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Frederick Henry Anthony (27)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Stanley Philip Astington (21)
• Sergeant Robert Ashton Baddeley
• Sergeant Geoffrey Bedford (22)
• Sergeant Ronald Frederick Bishop
• Flight Sergeant Derek Atherton Booth (20)
• Sergeant Gerald Charles Boudreau (25)
• Sergeant James Calvert Bradley (21)
• Pilot Officer Vincent Leslie Brice
• Pilot Officer Edgar George Broad (23)
• Leading Aircraftman William Burke (19)
• Sergeant James Wilfred Cadman (28)
• Flight Sergeant Sydney Clarence Camp (23)
• Pilot Officer Kenneth James Coakley (22)
• Sergeant Donald Wilfred Cockburn (31)
• Sergeant Reginald Cooke
• Leading Aircraftman James Edgar Norman Corin (29)
• Flight Sergeant Colin Wynne Cotterill (30)
• Sergeant Thomas Cowan
• Sergeant John Samuel Dainton (19)

See all 116 who died on 14 January →

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