Comines
24 March 1942 — Comines
- Date
- 24 March 1942
- Target
- Comines
- Force dispatched
- 18 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
136 airmen in this archive died on 24 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 John Henry Addis (26)
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Baines (29)
- Sergeant Albert Wallace Baker (21)
- Sergeant Joseph Davidson Beattie (21)
- Sergeant Ronald Henry Bester (19)
- Sergeant Edward John Biddulph (20)
- Sergeant Alan Blackman (20)
- Sergeant Samuel Block (33)
- Sergeant Stanley Charles George Blowes (22)
- Sergeant William James Thomas Bogg (27)
- Sergeant John Boyd (24)
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Edmund Bray (21)
- Pilot Officer Alastair William Buchan (20)
- Sergeant Raymond Benjamin Burrows (21)
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alexander Colin Campbell (21)
- Pilot Officer Peter Norman Cann (20)
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Herbert Arthur George Chatfield
- Flight Sergeant John George Clelland
- Sergeant Clive Edward Wigram Clifford (23)
- Sergeant Edward Burgess Cluff
- Sergeant Edward Alexander Cobham (26)
- Flying Officer Donald McLeod Craik
- Squadron Leader Daniel Edward Cremin
- Pilot Officer James Duncan Crombie (21)
See all 136 who died on 24 March →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →