Lorient

Date

23 January 1943

Target

Lorient, France

Force dispatched

121 aircraft

Aircraft lost

3

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

98 airmen in this archive died on 23 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.

• Pilot Officer Alexander Craig Aitken (20)
• Flight Lieutenant John Frank Hugh Andrews (30)
• Flying Officer Malcolm Wilfred Baxter (21)
• Warrant Officer Douglas Charles Bell (25)
• Sergeant Eric Berry (20)
• Sergeant Alan Henry Norman Bickley (21)
• Sergeant Arthur Sanderson Blagden (22)
• Sergeant James Edward Brewster (21)
• Pilot Officer Alfred Edward Brown (27)
• Flight Sergeant Alfred George Greenwood Brown (22)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class James Bruce (42)
• Flight Sergeant Robert John Burns (28)
• Flight Sergeant Gordon Ernest Campbell (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Richard Carruthers (26)
• Flying Officer William Garfield Clark
• Sergeant John Vincent Conlon (23)
• Flying Officer James Ian Craig (26)
• Sergeant Henry Dennis Dawes
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Frank Dimmock (21)
• Sergeant Alexander Sinclair Doull (22)
• Warrant Officer Samuel David Earwaker (26)
• Sergeant Reginald Charles Evans (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Howard Byers Field (23)
• Leading Aircraftman George Walter Ford

See all 98 who died on 23 January →

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