Lorient

Date

26 January 1943

Target

Lorient, France

Force dispatched

157 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

159 airmen in this archive died on 26 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.

• Aircraftman 2nd Class Abdul Karim Bin Youn
• Sergeant Albert George Allen
• Sergeant George Amos
• Sergeant John Amos (20)
• Flying Officer Thomas Henry Anthony (28)
• Flight Sergeant Walter Edmund Joseph Austin (21)
• Flying Officer Brian Herbert Bailey (21)
• Sergeant George Leslie Banks (31)
• Sergeant Maurice Jean Barbe
• Sergeant Milton Howitt Barnett (30)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Howard Barrett (23)
• Corporal Eric Courtney Bell (21)
• Pilot Officer Donald Malcolm Bennett (19)
• Sergeant Leonard Bill (21)
• Pilot Officer Harry Edwin Bonest (30)
• Sergeant Ronald James Booth (31)
• Sergeant Snowdon Cawood Bradley (26)
• Sergeant John Robert Brierley (21)
• Pilot Officer Raymond Arthur Brittingham (28)
• Flight Sergeant Ian George Brodie (27)
• Sergeant John Henry Brooks (26)
• Sergeant Colin Crawford Brownlee (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Robert Hardie Bryson (21)
• Sergeant Arthur Victor McDonald Buckingham (19)

See all 159 who died on 26 January →

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