Bremen

Date

2 July 1942

Target

Bremen, Germany

Force dispatched

325 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

132 airmen in this archive died on 2 July 1942 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.

• Flight Sergeant William Adamson (20)
• Warrant Officer William Royden Allison (23)
• Flight Sergeant Richard John Anderson (23)
• Warrant Officer Gordon Stuart Bolton (25)
• Sergeant Alan Denis Bond (30)
• Sergeant Eric William Bond (28)
• Leading Aircraftman Albert Robert Bonner (22)
• Pilot Officer Terence John Brady (22)
• Sergeant Maurice Alfred Brett (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Donald Robert Brown (28)
• Sergeant Geoffrey Hugh Butler-williams (24)
• Leading Aircraftman James Cameron Campbell (30)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Wilfred Henry Carey (21)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Vincent Chicoine (30)
• Sergeant Kenneth James Chippindale
• Leading Aircraftman Norman Clark (23)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Cecil Bertram Clarke
• Flying Officer Robert Angas Clough (25)
• Sergeant Harry Kenny Cox (19)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Edward Crothers (33)
• Corporal Gilbert Cruickshank (28)
• Sergeant Dennis Melville Davis
• Sergeant Frederick Kenneth Dennis (25)
• Pilot Officer Graham Lucas Donne (26)

See all 132 who died on 2 July →

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