Saarbrücken

Date

29 July 1942

Target

Saarbrücken, Germany

Force dispatched

291 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

268 airmen in this archive died on 29 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.

• Sergeant George Alder (22)
• Sergeant Alan Aldridge (20)
• Sergeant Arthur Allsopp (21)
• Sergeant Vincent Anderson
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Johannes Aronson (21)
• Pilot Officer Neil Greig Arthur (20)
• Sergeant William John Atchison (31)
• Corporal Leslie Herbert Atkinson
• Sergeant James Theodore Avedisian (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Herbert Evan Paul Barnes (37)
• Leading Air Mechanic John Barnier (35)
• Sergeant Maurice Alfred Barrett (22)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Barron (32)
• Sergeant Albert Henry Charles Bates (26)
• Pilot Officer George Corbett Bayley (23)
• Sergeant John Edgar St. Valentine L. Beasley (20)
• Sergeant Ronald Ernest Edward Bedford (20)
• Pilot Officer Gerard McKee Beech
• Warrant Officer John Morton Burroughs Black (22)
• Warrant Officer Class II Stanley Bocking (22)
• Pilot Officer John Rochester Boiston (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Bernard Thomas Bowden (33)
• Sergeant Cyril Alfred Bowes
• Sergeant John Boyle (26)

See all 268 who died on 29 July →

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