Calais

Date

1 May 1942

Target

Calais, France

Force dispatched

12 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

41 airmen in this archive died on 1 May 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 Roy Stuart Beveridge (20)
• Flight Sergeant George William Boggess (21)
• Warrant Officer Alexander Collingwood Bryce
• Leading Aircraftman Jack Buzan (22)
• Sergeant Alan Martin Howard Carbery (25)
• Sergeant Joseph Walter (johnny) Coad (28)
• Sergeant James Francis Collins
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Lawrence Henry Cook (36)
• Sergeant George Reuben Croasdell (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Edward Henry Dailey (21)
• Sergeant Thomas Lancey Dalton (26)
• Sergeant Richard George Davies
• Squadron Leader Charles Raymond Gurney (35)
• Pilot Officer James Ernest Hope (29)
• Pilot Officer Josef Janeba (27)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Andrew Kay (29)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Campbell Macfarlane (25)
• Sergeant Henry Maclean (30)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class George Malin (19)
• Corporal Thomas Edward Masterson (22)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Geoffrey Edward Meek (19)
• Sergeant Hugh Morrison (22)
• Sergeant Donald Whiteside Munro (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Harold Leslie North (22)

See all 41 who died on 1 May →

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