Bremen

Date

27 June 1942

Target

Bremen, Germany

Force dispatched

144 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

123 airmen in this archive died on 27 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.

• Flight Sergeant Desire Ernest Charles Adams (22)
• Flight Sergeant John Drew Ailey (21)
• Sergeant Ronald Frank Ansell (21)
• Sergeant John Armstrong (21)
• Sergeant John Dickson Bates
• Sergeant Peter Henry Benson (24)
• Flight Sergeant Maurice Lloyd Berg (23)
• Corporal Horace M. Bishop (28)
• Sergeant Edmund Robert John Burrell (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Douglas Linden Bussenschutt (28)
• Sergeant William Guyan Cardno (21)
• Pilot Officer John Edwin Casey (23)
• Flight Sergeant Louis Augustin Marie Cauchy
• Pilot Officer Alfred Graham (bill) Clark (32)
• Sergeant Leslie Ernest Clarke (21)
• Sergeant Fred Vigars Clayton (28)
• Flight Sergeant Gerald Cobden
• Flight Sergeant James Edward Cole (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Frank De Beauchamp Collenette (25)
• Flying Officer Francis Hugh Gordon Collis (40)
• Flight Sergeant Dennis Charles Hughmore Copping (24)
• Flight Sergeant Douglas Cranswick
• Flight Sergeant Michael Philip Stowe Cummings (22)
• Flight Sergeant Boyd Allison Dakin (21)

See all 123 who died on 27 June →

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