Brest

Date

26 January 1942

Target

Brest, France

Force dispatched

36 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

100 airmen in this archive died on 26 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 William Anderson (33)
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas Cecil Bate (41)
• Corporal Joseph Berry
• Corporal Peter Conway Bishop (22)
• Flight Sergeant John Smith Blaikie (20)
• Warrant Officer Cyril John Samuel Borras (32)
• Sergeant Hugh Stainger Brown (24)
• Sergeant William Edward Harold Brown (22)
• Aircraftman 1st Class James Bernard Canty (25)
• Sergeant John Harrison Carr (21)
• Sergeant Alfred Ronald Cheadle (20)
• Flight Sergeant Charles David Gordon Christian (29)
• 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)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Kenneth Craig
• Flight Sergeant James Angus Dodds
• Flight Lieutenant William John Dyson (34)
• Sergeant Joseph Alban Eckersley (21)
• Flight Sergeant George Ewen
• Sergeant William Frederick Field (39)
• Sergeant Andrew Martin Hearn Fleming (30)

See all 100 who died on 26 January →

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