Boulogne

Date

28 January 1942

Target

Boulogne, France

Force dispatched

48 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

73 airmen in this archive died on 28 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.

• Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur George Amer (34)
• Sergeant John Richard Anyan (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Ronald George Ashton (41)
• Sergeant Bruce Astley (23)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick Douglas Bailey (21)
• Sergeant Frederick William Baker (24)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Douglas Samuel Baraclough (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Gordon Francis Albert Barrett (18)
• Warrant Officer George Edward Albert Baxter
• Pilot Officer Edward Miles Beaumont (21)
• Sergeant Robert William Antony Biddlecombe
• Sergeant Kenneth Maurice Bird
• Flight Sergeant John Albert Bolle (22)
• Flight Sergeant Albutt Brittain (20)
• Flight Sergeant John Cadden (25)
• Flight Sergeant Douglas Reid Campbell
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Chan Khey Thye
• Sergeant John Frederick Charnock (19)
• Sergeant George Norman Church (22)
• Sergeant Denis Curnick (26)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class John Currie
• Leading Aircraftman Victor John Deverson (19)
• Sergeant Alfred James Dickerson (24)
• Sergeant Arthur Samuel Ditch (30)

See all 73 who died on 28 January →

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