Flushing

Date

1 June 1942

Target

Flushing

Force dispatched

15 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

208 airmen in this archive died on 1 June 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.

• Air Mechanic R R S. (billie) Ainslie (39)
• Leading Aircraftman Robert James Aitken (30)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Bruce Albright (28)
• Sergeant Alastair Macdonald Anderson (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class James Kevin Anderson
• Sergeant Ronald Albert Archer (24)
• Sergeant Clifford Baines (21)
• Pilot Officer Alfred George Bake (25)
• Pilot Officer Ross Lloyd Baltzer (26)
• Flight Sergeant Dudley Raymond Beinke (21)
• Sergeant Thomas William Belton (28)
• Pilot Officer Kelvin Cholwill Billing (24)
• Pilot Officer Francis John Blackwood (28)
• Leading Aircraftman John M. Brannon (22)
• Sergeant Wilfred Brookes (28)
• Sergeant John Downie Brown (25)
• Sergeant Richard Arnold Brown
• Sergeant Rex Theodore Burt (23)
• Pilot Officer Frank Rumsey Busby (27)
• Pilot Officer Donald George Campbell (20)
• Pilot Officer Thomas Maughan Carter (28)
• Sergeant Ernest Chadwick (25)
• Pilot Officer William Frederick Dixon Charlton (22)
• Flight Sergeant Arthur Leslie Chirnside (29)

See all 208 who died on 1 June →

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