Flushing
21 January 1943 — Flushing
- Date
- 21 January 1943
- Command
- Bomber Command
- Target
- Flushing
- Force dispatched
- 51 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
150 airmen in this archive died on 21 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 George Henry Anderson (20)
- Flying Officer Arthur Redvers Atkins (26)
- Warrant Officer William Evan Atkins
- Sergeant Donald Leslie Baker (25)
- Sergeant Herbert Francis Barber (22)
- Sergeant Alan Frederick Bates (19)
- Pilot Officer Herbert Eldon Beale (23)
- Pilot Officer Hugh Bernard Bell (21)
- Sergeant Norman Reginald Bennett
- Sergeant William Houston Bower (21)
- Flight Sergeant Frank Lawrence Boyd (22)
- Pilot Officer Eric Bradley (23)
- Sergeant Stanley Charles Brewer (22)
- Sergeant Basil Dewdney Bridge
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Brown (33)
- Sergeant John Henry Brown
- Warrant Officer Ralph Chaytor Brown (23)
- Flight Lieutenant Bruce Lyndon Buls (25)
- Pilot Officer Edgar Heaton Burgess (23)
- Sergeant Allan Campbell (22)
- Pilot Officer Walter Henry Cappleman (28)
- Flying Officer Brian Withers Carmichael (30)
- Sergeant John Carr (22)
- Flying Officer Lawrence Vernon Carrington (22)
See all 150 who died on 21 January →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →