Emden

Date

15 January 1942

Target

Emden, Germany

Force dispatched

50 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

104 airmen in this archive died on 15 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 2nd Class Arthur Alfred Ackred (27)
• Sergeant Basil Andrew Adams (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Frederick Henry Anthony (27)
• Sergeant John Robinson Appleby (26)
• Sergeant Geoffrey Bedford (22)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Sidney Binderman
• Sergeant Ronald Frederick Bishop
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Peter Alexander Boyce (16)
• Sergeant Douglas Reginald Bradley (28)
• Sergeant James Calvert Bradley (21)
• Sergeant James Maxwell Brady (22)
• Pilot Officer Vincent Leslie Brice
• Sergeant John Raeburn Brown (23)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class William Ernest Brown (21)
• Sergeant Joseph Ernest Browne (32)
• Sergeant John Stewart Brownsell (21)
• Flight Sergeant James Arthur Bunting
• Flight Sergeant Sydney Clarence Camp (23)
• Sergeant Reginald Cooke
• Aircraftman 2nd Class John Cooley (29)
• Pilot Officer Thomas George Cottier (27)
• Sergeant Thomas Cowan
• Sergeant John Samuel Dainton (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Anthony Darling (27)

See all 104 who died on 15 January →

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