Brest
25 January 1942 — Brest
- Date
- 25 January 1942
- Command
- Bomber Command
- Target
- Brest, France
- Force dispatched
- 61 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
116 airmen in this archive died on 25 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 Kenneth Duncan Adams (31)
- Sergeant William Anderson (33)
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Cecil Bate (41)
- Sergeant Hugh Berry (21)
- Corporal Joseph Berry
- Corporal Peter Conway Bishop (22)
- Warrant Officer Cyril John Samuel Borras (32)
- Sergeant Hugh Stainger Brown (24)
- Sergeant William Edward Harold Brown (22)
- Sergeant John Henry Bye (19)
- Sergeant John Harrison Carr (21)
- Sergeant Alfred Ronald Cheadle (20)
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Francis Joseph Clark (23)
- Flight Sergeant John Leslie Clark (29)
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Condliffe
- Sergeant Alfred Charles Cornell (26)
- Sergeant Arthur Henry Coupe (21)
- Sergeant Alan Vincent Coutie (28)
- Flight Sergeant Robert Kenneth Craig
- Flight Sergeant Victor Charles Dadson (21)
- Sergeant Harold Davies (21)
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Newcombe Densham
- Flight Sergeant James Angus Dodds
- Pilot Officer Frederick Charles Duggan (21)
See all 116 who died on 25 January →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →