Submarine Bases
7 March 1942 — Submarine Bases
- Date
- 7 March 1942
- Target
- Submarine Bases
- Force dispatched
- 17 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
78 airmen in this archive died on 7 March 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.
- Pilot Officer Douglas Spencer Aitken (21)
- Leading Aircraftman James Asquith (21)
- Corporal Frank James Ball (26)
- Sergeant Sydney William Benson (19)
- Sergeant Phillip Crocker Bucknell (20)
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Donald Victor Bunn (40)
- Wing Commander Vernon Stanley Butler (26)
- Flight Lieutenant Basil Bernard Callick (30)
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Charles Campbell (25)
- Leading Aircraftman George Albert Close
- Leading Aircraftman William Richard Collier (27)
- Leading Aircraftman Benjamin Dean Cook (20)
- Leading Aircraftman John Coventry
- Corporal Charles Allan Crapper
- Flight Sergeant Charles William Douglas Crichton (25)
- Sergeant Thomas Alfred Reginald Crowe (24)
- Flying Officer Allan Godfrey Davidson (27)
- Corporal William Day (32)
- Sergeant William Mervyn Alastair Eardley
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Wighton Fenton
- Sergeant Leslie Norman Follows
- Leading Aircraftman Hubert Vernol Ford (20)
- Sergeant Alec Robert Frewing (25)
- Sergeant Derek Maitland Hall (27)
See all 78 who died on 7 March →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →