Emden

Date

12 March 1942

Target

Emden, Germany

Force dispatched

71 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

106 airmen in this archive died on 12 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.

• Flight Sergeant Campbell Ewin Justin Aitchison (22)
• Sergeant Keith Alexander Andrew (24)
• Sergeant Richard Derrick Ash (29)
• Flight Lieutenant Thomas James Desmond Baber
• Pilot Officer Derrick Bourchier Bailey (21)
• Sergeant Geoffrey George Bell (21)
• Sergeant Robert Alfred Bell (31)
• Sergeant Peter Windermere Bland
• Flight Sergeant John Lukies Brown (22)
• Sergeant Tony Kevin Carter (20)
• Flight Sergeant Lloyd Montgomery Chamberlain (28)
• Sergeant Harry Chaplin
• Sergeant James Ernest Church
• Pilot Officer Josef Frantisek Cibulka
• Sergeant William Clezy (21)
• Flight Sergeant Patrick John Denis Cooney (22)
• Sergeant Kenneth Clarence Edward Corke (24)
• Sergeant Herbert Sidney George Cullen (22)
• Sergeant William Curlet (22)
• Sergeant Joseph William Dale
• Sergeant Leonard Frank Rogers Davis (33)
• Pilot Officer Leonard Dobson (21)
• Sergeant Leslie Joseph Dunn (19)
• Sergeant Bernard John Dykes (21)

See all 106 who died on 12 March →

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