Flensburg

Date

1 October 1942

Target

Flensburg

Force dispatched

12 aircraft

Aircraft lost

12

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

205 airmen in this archive died on 1 October 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 Frederick Charles Adsett (22)
• Flying Officer John Edward Alcock (24)
• Flying Officer Merle William Atkinson (20)
• Pilot Officer Francis Leslie Austin (34)
• Flying Officer Russel James Ayles (33)
• Flight Sergeant William Henry Backs
• Lieutenant Badcock (21)
• Sergeant Frederick George Bellchambers
• Flight Sergeant Maxwell Ben-hertz (20)
• Sergeant David Stanley Benner (21)
• Leading Aircraftman John Jacob Birky (26)
• Flight Lieutenant Herbert Frank Blackburn (35)
• Flight Sergeant Hermanus Boonzaier (23)
• Sergeant Reginald Booth
• Flying Officer Geoffrey Vernon Boynton (21)
• Sergeant Thomas Edward Brett (22)
• Sergeant James Buchanan (21)
• Pilot Officer John Richard Powell Burke
• Sergeant Robert Alfred Burman (21)
• Flying Officer Ernest Rex Butterworth (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Frederick Orchard Cadham
• Sergeant Ronald William Cadman (26)
• Sergeant David Campbell
• Pilot Officer John Thompson Campbell (22)

See all 205 who died on 1 October →

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