Le Havre

Date

10 November 1942

Target

Le Havre, France

Force dispatched

15 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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

143 airmen in this archive died on 10 November 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.

• Flight Sergeant Ronald Ross Abercrombie (22)
• Pilot Officer Herbert Charles Nigel Adams (24)
• Warrant Officer Class II Conan Thompson Allen (20)
• Sergeant Philip Paul Armstrong (20)
• Flight Sergeant Richard Marlow Baldock (20)
• Sergeant Donald George Barnie (26)
• Sergeant James Harold Barry (22)
• Sergeant Eric Edward Bartholomew (20)
• Leading Aircraftman George Bates (21)
• Sergeant Gilbert George May Battison (27)
• Sergeant Deryck Bonney Beales
• Aircraftman 1st Class George Beckett (22)
• Sergeant John Bell (22)
• Sergeant Ralph Miller Bland
• Flying Officer John Harold Borland (28)
• Lieutenant Gordon Ward Brodziak (26)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Peter Bulanda (22)
• Sergeant Frank Charles Bunclark (27)
• Lieutenant Burdon (22)
• Flying Officer Allison Burnett Burgess
• Sergeant Frederick Oswald Button (27)
• Flight Sergeant Sidney Callaghan (49)
• Pilot Officer Paul Campbell (27)
• Flight Sergeant John Patrick Carter (30)

See all 143 who died on 10 November →

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