Wilhelmshaven

Date

8 July 1942

Target

Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Force dispatched

285 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

76 airmen in this archive died on 8 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.

• Pilot Officer Basil Kemp Armstrong (28)
• Sergeant Roy Alan Ashmore (28)
• Sergeant Jack Edgar Ashwell (22)
• Sergeant Alexander Albert Brace (23)
• Sergeant Donald Bradshaw (20)
• Pilot Officer Kenneth James Broderick (25)
• Pilot Officer Alan Stewart Broun
• Sergeant Norman Albert Burr (33)
• Aircraftman 1st Class William John Candler (34)
• Squadron Leader Sidney Henry Cave
• Sergeant John James Stephen Corderoy (27)
• Sergeant Hugh Cuthbert Craig (22)
• Sergeant William Henry Curtis
• Sergeant Keith Edward Dare (26)
• Flight Sergeant David Diamond (21)
• Sergeant Albert Leslie Gane (22)
• Pilot Officer Jack Ralph Gavegan (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Grant William Gibson (21)
• Pilot Officer John Carlton Gilbert (20)
• Pilot Officer Herbert Edward James Giles (22)
• Second Lieutenant Gilfillan
• Pilot Officer Charles Willard Gomm (27)
• Sergeant Edward Ernest Gutteridge (22)
• Sergeant John Simon Da-silva Haley (22)

See all 76 who died on 8 July →

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