Cherbourg

Date

3 January 1943

Target

Cherbourg

Force dispatched

17 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

102 airmen in this archive died on 3 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.

• Second Lieutenant Elwyn Anders (20)
• Sergeant Douglas Bell (20)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Jack Bennett (25)
• Pilot Officer Raymond Harry Bird (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Alan Blyth
• Flight Lieutenant Harper Mervyn Bongard (24)
• Flight Sergeant Hiram George Brooks (25)
• Flight Sergeant Douglas Seaman Cameron
• Squadron Leader Richard George Chester (37)
• Sergeant Richard Clark (29)
• Squadron Leader Hugh Wynston Cleland (34)
• Sergeant Arthur James Cook
• Sergeant James Daniel Cooper (22)
• Flying Officer Graham Grant Cowlin (22)
• Sergeant Edward Michael Croft (22)
• Sergeant John Davidson (32)
• Sergeant John Davis (23)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Lloyd Dickie (23)
• Flight Sergeant James Seatter Dickson (20)
• Corporal William Cecil Doan (22)
• Sergeant Kenneth John Fielding (19)
• Flight Sergeant Eric John Benjamin Fletcher (29)
• Flying Officer James Ernest Foley-brickley
• Corporal Donald Macarthur Fraser (28)

See all 102 who died on 3 January →

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