St Nazaire

Date

24 June 1942

Target

St Nazaire

Force dispatched

21 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

167 airmen in this archive died on 24 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 Sydney Alcock (23)
• Sergeant Harold Lewis Allen
• Sergeant James Stewart Almond (23)
• Lieutenant Anderson (24)
• Corporal Terrence Allister Andrews (25)
• Leading Aircraftman David Thomas Arbuckle (20)
• Sergeant Arthur Aston (22)
• Sergeant Edward William Baker (21)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Reginald Herbert Jack Balchin (38)
• Sergeant Horace Sydney Barker (23)
• Sergeant Cecil Douglas Barnett (20)
• Pilot Officer Ernest Lionel Bedford
• Sergeant William Bennett (22)
• Sergeant Ernest Bent (31)
• Flight Sergeant James Henry Gordon Bingham (30)
• Sergeant Richard Hubert Bircher (20)
• Sergeant Albert Frank Bissell (27)
• Pilot Officer Claude Wynter Arthur Blick (30)
• Sergeant Harry Bloor (30)
• Sergeant Cyril Brennan (23)
• Sergeant Roy Harry Brett (20)
• Sergeant Peter Grenville Brothers (22)
• Flight Sergeant Eddie Hester Brown (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Harry Burgin (32)

See all 167 who died on 24 June →

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