Cherbourg

Date

3 June 1942

Target

Cherbourg

Force dispatched

12 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

180 airmen in this archive died on 3 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.

• Sergeant Finlay Emmerson Anderson (20)
• Flight Sergeant Harold Clifford Andrews
• Sergeant William Archer (30)
• Flying Officer Ronald Earle Archibald (21)
• Flight Sergeant Albert Winston Armstrong (23)
• Sergeant Richard Armstrong (27)
• Sergeant Stanley Arnett (26)
• Sergeant Frederick Ralph Arthan (22)
• Pilot Officer Eric Atkinson (22)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Donald Atkinson (22)
• Pilot Officer Frank Joseph Barker (25)
• Sergeant John Battersby (29)
• Flight Lieutenant George Liddell Carruthers Beattie
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Francis Beaumont (27)
• Squadron Leader David John Bell (30)
• Sergeant Oliver Percy Beswick (27)
• Flight Sergeant Reginald John Biglands (28)
• Leading Aircraftman George Victor Blake (21)
• Sergeant David Boddy (30)
• Flight Sergeant Fred Booth (21)
• Sergeant Robert Jack Brewer (20)
• Flight Sergeant Harold Cyril Frederick Broadbent (25)
• Flight Sergeant Hugh Rowell Brodie (30)
• Sergeant Douglas Perry Brooks

See all 180 who died on 3 June →

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