Ijmuiden

Date

9 January 1943

Command

Bomber Command

Target

Ijmuiden

Force dispatched

32 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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

138 airmen in this archive died on 9 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 Percy William Adams (21)
• Warrant Officer Clarence Charles Nelson Bailey (28)
• Sergeant Robert Alexander Banks-martin (26)
• Warrant Officer Class II Frank Harvey Barker (22)
• Flying Officer Patrick Allan Barr (22)
• Sergeant William Barrett
• Sergeant John Anthony Martin Bell (19)
• Flight Sergeant John Gibson Benson (30)
• Flight Sergeant Denis Murdock Boon (24)
• Sergeant Thomas Patrick Bowles (27)
• Warrant Officer Class II John Edward Bradley (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II John Albert Buick (28)
• Sergeant Donald Bullock (27)
• Sergeant Alfred Charles Burgess (20)
• Pilot Officer John Perceval Butler (28)
• Flying Officer Andrew Greenhill Cameron (33)
• Sergeant William Douglas Cameron
• Leading Aircraftman Allan Robert Campbell (19)
• Sergeant Raymond Charles Chappell (23)
• Sergeant Jack Mortimer Clarke
• Leading Aircraftman Morris Rex Clarke (20)
• Flight Sergeant Stanley Riswin Colbert (21)
• Corporal John Dennis Cole (38)
• Pilot Officer Geoffrey Arnold Collins (24)

See all 138 who died on 9 January →

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