Emden

Date

6 June 1942

Target

Emden, Germany

Force dispatched

233 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

151 airmen in this archive died on 6 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.

• Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Bruce Allen (19)
• Pilot Officer Alan William Asmuss (21)
• Pilot Officer Norman Russell Bailey (23)
• Sergeant Leonard Thomas Baker (25)
• Flight Sergeant Fredrick Cecil Banks (20)
• Sergeant Charles Maurice Barber (22)
• Flight Sergeant Wilfred Barham (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Harry Spence Beaton
• Lieutenant Berrange (22)
• Pilot Officer Douglas John Davies Berrington (25)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Bernard Charles Frederick Bicknell
• Sergeant John Alfred Bloomfield (27)
• Flying Officer Malcolm James Larke Blunt (27)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Leonard Bradshaw (22)
• Pilot Officer Richard Henry Broadley (20)
• Squadron Leader John North Hewlett Brooke (45)
• Sergeant Kenneth Buchanan (21)
• Sergeant Ronald Garnet Burton (22)
• Sergeant Albert Francois Buttel (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Charles Tom Cantrill (22)
• Pilot Officer Barrie Phillip Cardinal (21)
• Squadron Leader John Champion Carver (26)
• Sergeant Guy Hesketh Chamberlin (33)
• Flight Sergeant Roderick James Chisholm (21)

See all 151 who died on 6 June →

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