Brest

Date

29 January 1942

Target

Brest, France

Force dispatched

72 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

57 airmen in this archive died on 29 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 Leslie Clarence Adams (41)
• Pilot Officer Ralph Norman Allen (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Ronald George Ashton (41)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick Douglas Bailey (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Douglas Samuel Baraclough (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Gordon Francis Albert Barrett (18)
• Aircraftman 1st Class William Oliver Beckett (21)
• Flight Sergeant John Albert Bolle (22)
• Flying Officer John Albert Campbell Brown (41)
• Sergeant Philip Henry Burston (22)
• Flight Sergeant John Cadden (25)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Fawcett Campbell (27)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Chan Khey Thye
• Sergeant John Frederick Charnock (19)
• Pilot Officer William George Cruickshank
• Aircraftman 2nd Class John Currie
• Aircraftman 1st Class James De Pinna (18)
• Leading Aircraftman Victor John Deverson (19)
• Air Mechanic Peter Hendrik De Villiers
• Leading Aircraftman Sidney Charles Elphick
• Flight Lieutenant Edwin Fox (28)
• Sergeant Robert James Clarke Garrett (20)
• Flying Officer Derek John Randolph Gee
• Lieutenant William Greaves (22)

See all 57 who died on 29 January →

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