Danzig

Date

11 July 1942

Target

Danzig

Force dispatched

24 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

102 airmen in this archive died on 11 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 Alexander Alfred Angel (25)
• Flight Sergeant James Robert Axon (22)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth George Baugh (23)
• Sergeant Thomas David Belford (33)
• Flying Officer Owen William Hugh Berkeley-hill (22)
• Flight Sergeant David Adrian Boldy (23)
• Sergeant Elton Duncan Brabender (31)
• Sergeant Frederick Charles Brayne (24)
• Corporal William Henry Brett (29)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Paul Buzik (18)
• Warrant Officer Class II Robert Allan Arthur Chalmers
• Corporal Victor Stanley (vic) Chenery
• Squadron Leader Cyril Lancelot Fellowes Colmore (29)
• Sergeant George Arthur Corbett
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Denis Crofton (35)
• Flight Sergeant Allan Percival Cullerne (21)
• Sergeant Harold Ralph Hutchinson De Laspee
• Sergeant Lenard Charles Underwood Dreyer (28)
• Flight Sergeant George Henry Duke (26)
• Lieutenant Rupert Alan Durose (27)
• Flying Officer Robert Terence Wolfenden Elcoate (24)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Norman Eslick (30)
• Sergeant Thomas Fieldhouse (21)
• Sergeant John Forsyth (22)

See all 102 who died on 11 July →

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