Ijmuiden

Date

2 May 1943

Target

Ijmuiden

Force dispatched

31 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

88 airmen in this archive died on 2 May 1943 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 Edward Addison
• Pilot Officer Thomas James Baynton (27)
• Sergeant Ernest Jack Beer (29)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Harold Bentley (35)
• Flying Officer Richard Kendrick Betchley
• Wing Commander Howard Peter Blatchford (31)
• Aircraftman 1st Class John Edward Brough (21)
• Sergeant John James Brown (23)
• Flight Sergeant Richard Butler (29)
• Sergeant William Arthur Cadel (25)
• Sergeant James Arthur Cheetham (24)
• Sergeant Alfred George Shelton Corps (22)
• Flying Officer Stanley Coshall (26)
• Pilot Officer Andrew Edward Coutts (27)
• Sergeant Horace James Cox (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Allan Victor Crouch (29)
• Sergeant Leonard Robert Crouch (21)
• Flying Officer Robert Geoffrey Crouch (23)
• Flight Sergeant Peter Howard Rowe Davies (22)
• Sergeant William Dove (22)
• Sergeant Albert Edward Downs
• Sergeant Walter Raymond East (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Dudley Tabor Everett (31)
• Flying Officer John Henry Benjamin Eyles (20)

See all 88 who died on 2 May →

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