Bremen

Date

29 June 1942

Target

Bremen, Germany

Force dispatched

253 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

154 airmen in this archive died on 29 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.

• Leading Aircraftman Albert Henry Abbotts (20)
• Flight Sergeant Reginald Thomas Adams (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II William Etherington Alcazar
• Squadron Leader George William Alexander (38)
• Pilot Officer Gordon William Allan (21)
• Sergeant John Leonard Allison (29)
• Squadron Leader Newton Anderson (32)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth Edward Anning (20)
• Pilot Officer Charles Douglas Haig Archer (23)
• Sergeant George Walter Matthew Archer
• Aircraftman 1st Class Trevor John Argent (38)
• Sergeant Sydney Armory (26)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Arundale (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Edgar Donald Balaam (20)
• Flight Sergeant Jack St. Ledger Baldwin (28)
• Flight Lieutenant William George Barnes (29)
• Sergeant Richard Eugene Barr (29)
• Sergeant Walter Percy Beare
• Warrant Officer James William Bell (28)
• Pilot Officer Robert Bertram (26)
• Lieutenant Victor Gerald Bissett
• Second Lieutenant Richard Michael Bolton
• Sergeant Lawrence Harold Bradbrook (22)
• Flight Sergeant Edmund Keith Brennan (26)

See all 154 who died on 29 June →

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