Kiel

Date

13 October 1942

Target

Kiel, Germany

Force dispatched

288 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

125 airmen in this archive died on 13 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.

• Pilot Officer Edward William Baldwin (31)
• Sergeant Richard Thomas Barber (26)
• Pilot Officer John Hamilton Barrett (20)
• Sergeant James Jeffrey Barton (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class William Arthur Barton
• Flight Sergeant Samuel John Beckett (22)
• Flying Officer Clarence Edgar Bell (22)
• Flight Sergeant Edwin Robert Bergquist
• Leading Aircraftman George William Blackburn (32)
• Flying Officer Raymond Sydney Braley
• Corporal David Alan Rufus Brookes
• Leading Aircraftman Arthur John Brown (19)
• Corporal John M. Butchart (47)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Raymond Chatson (18)
• Sergeant Hubert Reginald Clark (23)
• Flight Sergeant Donald Willard Congdon (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Fred George Coulson
• Sergeant Ronald Court (19)
• Warrant Officer Class II Wesley Bethel Croft (20)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Henry Cummings (20)
• Pilot Officer Frederick Eugene Davies (20)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald William Davison (22)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Dempsay
• Flight Sergeant Francis Xavier Joseph Dunajski (23)

See all 125 who died on 13 October →

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