Bremen

Date

21 January 1942

Target

Bremen, Germany

Force dispatched

54 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

123 airmen in this archive died on 21 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.

• Sergeant John Wilson Adey (19)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Ivan Victor Strachan Anderson (20)
• Pilot Officer George Henry Armstrong (28)
• Sergeant Vincent Arthur (19)
• Corporal Herbert Leslie Baldwin (21)
• Sergeant Mervyn John Fitzhardinge Baldwin (33)
• Pilot Officer Ronald Charles Beckley (23)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Marcel Pietro Belcher (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class William Henry Bell (36)
• Sergeant Joseph Birkett (30)
• Flight Lieutenant Joseph William Blennerhassett (23)
• Pupil Pilot Bower (19)
• Sergeant Francis Haydn Brooke (21)
• Sergeant Robert Brown (19)
• Sergeant Arthur Stuart Chantrell (27)
• 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)
• Leading Aircraftman Walter Edward Cooper
• Sergeant Douglas Charles Coote (29)
• Leading Aircraftman James Leslie Cox (21)
• Leading Aircraftman John Edward Bruce Craigie (29)

See all 123 who died on 21 January →

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