Emden
21 January 1942 — Emden
- Date
- 21 January 1942
- Target
- Emden, Germany
- Force dispatched
- 38 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
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) →