Le Havre

Date

26 March 1942

Target

Le Havre, France

Force dispatched

25 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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

169 airmen in this archive died on 26 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 Harold John Appel (25)
• Sergeant Edmund Roy Baggott (20)
• Sergeant Edgar Albert Bailey (24)
• Sergeant Victor Charles Rudkin Baker (19)
• Flight Sergeant Donald Leslie Ballingall (20)
• Sergeant Ronald Harry Joseph Barrie (21)
• Sergeant Robert Noel Beale (26)
• Sergeant John Samuel Beauchamp (22)
• Pilot Officer Gordon Findlay Beaver (26)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Max Albert Beetz (21)
• Sergeant Edward Leslie Belk (20)
• Sergeant Samuel Frederick Bentley (21)
• Sergeant Herman Albert Benjamin Bird
• Leading Aircraftman Hanoch Blumenkranz
• Sergeant David Watson Bond
• Flying Officer William Desmond Stuart Bow
• Sergeant Norman George Wood Boyce
• Flying Officer Trevor Ernest Brammall (23)
• Flying Officer Henry Paul Brancker (30)
• Sergeant William Brand (20)
• Sergeant Donald Charles Brockley
• Leading Aircraftman Anthony Carr Harle Brown (24)
• Sergeant Clifford Brown (22)
• Flight Lieutenant William Beaumont Brown (21)

See all 169 who died on 26 March →

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