Bremen

Date

3 June 1942

Target

Bremen, Germany

Force dispatched

170 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) →