Bremen

Date

17 January 1942

Target

Bremen, Germany

Force dispatched

83 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

95 airmen in this archive died on 17 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.

• Flight Sergeant John Cedric Addy (21)
• Squadron Leader Rupert Ruben Watt Allen
• Sergeant Joseph Henry Arch
• Pilot Officer Alexander Charles Argent
• Flight Lieutenant Robert George Arnold (22)
• Sergeant Edgar John Barrett (20)
• Flight Sergeant Edward Michael Fraser Bearcroft (23)
• Pilot Officer Cyril Hardwick Beet (21)
• Sergeant Wilfred Roy Beeton (29)
• Sergeant Edward Blacklaw (21)
• Sergeant Bertie Bowring
• Flight Lieutenant David Burton Bradley (24)
• Pilot Officer Derek Malcolm Browne (19)
• Pilot Officer Jaromir Broz
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Gordon John Carpenter (21)
• Flying Officer Thomas Henry Caulkin (21)
• Sergeant Norman Richard Chapman (26)
• Pilot Officer Daniel Joseph Clifford (23)
• Flight Sergeant Richard Collins
• Sergeant Cyril Reginald Collinson (25)
• Pilot Officer Leslie Ernest Cook (21)
• Pupil Pilot Boyd Cooper
• Pilot Officer Ernest Wilkin Cox (22)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Culley (37)

See all 95 who died on 17 January →

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