Zeebrugge

Date

5 May 1942

Target

Zeebrugge

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

116 airmen in this archive died on 5 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.

• Sergeant Philip Robert Abbas
• Sergeant Alan Fletcher Ada (28)
• Leading Aircraftman Harry Allen
• Corporal Basil Wilfred Anderson (25)
• Sergeant Ewart John Andrews
• Flight Sergeant John Raymond St. George Arrowsmith
• Sergeant Eric William Barfield (22)
• Sergeant Leslie Arthur Barnfield (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Edmond Bartlett (28)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Sample Bell (21)
• Sergeant Richard Fletcher Birchnall (30)
• Sergeant Leonard Herbert Blake
• Flight Sergeant Donald Archibald Blue (22)
• Flight Sergeant Trevor Montague Brent
• Flight Sergeant Allan Charles Vincent Brophy (28)
• Sergeant Monty Holt Brothers (33)
• Sergeant Thomas Lloyd Brown (24)
• Flight Sergeant Victor Carriline (26)
• Pilot Officer Kenneth Case (26)
• Sergeant Thomas William Charles (19)
• Pilot Officer Arnold Foster Cheetham (27)
• Sergeant Arthur Clitheroe (29)
• Flight Sergeant William Freeborne Colville (25)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Harold Henry Cordell (33)

See all 116 who died on 5 May →

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