Cherbourg

Date

2 January 1943

Target

Cherbourg

Force dispatched

13 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

103 airmen in this archive died on 2 January 1943 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 Harry Addinall (21)
• Sergeant John Montague Allen (19)
• Sergeant Jack Holder Atkinson (33)
• Sergeant William Alfred Leslie Babington (25)
• Flight Sergeant Francis Henry Baron (22)
• Sergeant Douglas Bell (20)
• Sergeant Jack Gordon Stewart Bell (20)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Jack Bennett (25)
• Pilot Officer Raymond Harry Bird (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Harper Mervyn Bongard (24)
• Sergeant Raymond Britto (25)
• Leading Aircraftman Frederick Arthur Brunton (25)
• Flight Sergeant Douglas Seaman Cameron
• Aircraftman 2nd Class George William Chapman (42)
• Sergeant Richard Clark (29)
• Sergeant James Daniel Cooper (22)
• Flight Sergeant George Alec Coutts (29)
• Warrant Officer Harold Russell Cox (21)
• Sergeant John Davidson (32)
• Sergeant John Davis (23)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Lloyd Dickie (23)
• Corporal William Cecil Doan (22)
• Pilot Officer John James Alfred Field (22)
• Sergeant Kenneth John Fielding (19)

See all 103 who died on 2 January →

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