Bruges

Date

9 May 1942

Target

Bruges

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

161 airmen in this archive died on 9 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 John Ernest Baillie (26)
• Pilot Officer Rex Vivian Beatson (31)
• Leading Aircraftman David Beattie (32)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Yosek Befeler (22)
• Pilot Officer Frederick William Belton (26)
• Sergeant Alwyn Bentley (28)
• Flying Officer Leonard Manley Blain (38)
• Sergeant Arnold Jose Blairon
• Pilot Officer George Maxwell Briggs (21)
• Sergeant William Craig Brodie (22)
• Sergeant William Charles Thomas Brown (21)
• Flight Lieutenant John Walter Buckstone (22)
• Flying Officer Henry John Bullock
• Sergeant Kenneth Edward Byrne (27)
• Flight Sergeant James Douglas Cameron (23)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Patrick Carney (19)
• Sergeant James William Chadwick (19)
• Flight Sergeant Ivan Lee Charbonneau (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Percival Clarke Christian
• Pilot Officer John Peter Dixon Clarke
• Aircraftman 1st Class John Shedrick Clarke (19)
• Sergeant Donald Alexander Clephane (23)
• Captain Dudley Cobbledick (24)
• Sergeant Elwood Lincoln Joseph Coleman (23)

See all 161 who died on 9 May →

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