Emden
20 January 1942 — Emden
- Date
- 20 January 1942
- Target
- Emden, Germany
- Force dispatched
- 29 aircraft
- Aircraft lost
- 1
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
129 airmen in this archive died on 20 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.
- Pilot Officer George Henry Armstrong (28)
- Corporal Cecil William Arnold (26)
- Sergeant Clive Albert Ashford (26)
- Corporal Herbert Leslie Baldwin (21)
- Sergeant John Bessell-browne (29)
- Sergeant Joseph Birkett (30)
- Sergeant Robert Alfred Blackman (20)
- Sergeant Albert Edwin Blake (25)
- Pupil Pilot Bower (19)
- Pilot Officer Paul Middleton Brewer (22)
- Sergeant Charles Frederick Bromley (19)
- Sergeant Robert Brown (19)
- Sergeant Peter Lewis Chapman
- Sergeant Peter Bernard Chapple (21)
- Pilot Officer Harold William Clarke (20)
- Sergeant James Joseph Clarke (30)
- Leading Aircraftman Leo Thomas Clarke (26)
- Sergeant Francis Coakley (20)
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert George Cocklin
- Sergeant Edward Connelly
- Sergeant Douglas Charles Coote (29)
- Leading Aircraftman James Leslie Cox (21)
- Leading Aircraftman John Edward Bruce Craigie (29)
- Leading Aircraftman Ormond Frederick Ewald Crawford (25)
See all 129 who died on 20 January →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →