Hazebrouck

Date

13 March 1942

Target

Hazebrouck

Force dispatched

11 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

89 airmen in this archive died on 13 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.

• Sergeant Richard Derrick Ash (29)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Clifford Leslie Attfield (19)
• Sergeant Robert Alfred Bell (31)
• Sergeant Robert Curragh Bell (26)
• Sergeant Peter Windermere Bland
• Pilot Officer Leslie Booth (25)
• Squadron Leader George Francis Brotchie (25)
• Aircraftman 1st Class John Casey
• Sergeant James Ernest Church
• Sergeant Les William Higgs Connor (24)
• Flight Sergeant Patrick John Denis Cooney (22)
• Sergeant Kenneth Clarence Edward Corke (24)
• Sergeant William Curlet (22)
• Sergeant Leonard Frank Rogers Davis (33)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Donald Alan Dickie (22)
• Pilot Officer John Jerram Eden (26)
• Flight Sergeant Edmund Cheney Evans (25)
• Pilot Officer John Rowland Feirn (34)
• Pilot Officer Cecil Frank Ferris (33)
• Sergeant Peter Hollowell Foster (21)
• Sergeant Noel Thomas Gander (21)
• Sergeant Noel Elford Giddings (25)
• Leading Aircraftman Roy Ian Gilbert (33)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Antonio Lucien Giroux (24)

See all 89 who died on 13 March →

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