Le Havre

Date

15 October 1942

Target

Le Havre, France

Force dispatched

28 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

210 airmen in this archive died on 15 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 Thomas Adamson (24)
• Flying Officer Jack Whitwell Allison (26)
• Leading Aircraftman Charles William Anders (23)
• Sergeant Patrick James Anderton (23)
• Sergeant Irving Arbuckle (19)
• Flight Sergeant Douglas Drennan Baird (23)
• Sergeant Robert Bayley (20)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Baythorp (25)
• Pilot Officer Keith Thomas Beange (21)
• Sergeant Arthur Ewart Bell (30)
• Sergeant John Ernest Bellamy (26)
• Sergeant Reuben John Benn (24)
• Pilot Officer Gerrard Roy Bing (25)
• Flying Officer John Stanbridge Bird (23)
• Sergeant Stephen William George Bishop (25)
• Flight Sergeant Reginald George Blair (26)
• Sergeant Edward Albert Blake (20)
• Sergeant Sidney Brans (30)
• Flight Sergeant Raymond Gerard Brasnett
• Sergeant Frank Briggs (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Alfred Brindley
• Flight Sergeant John Crawford Brocket (21)
• Sergeant Ronald Brooker (25)
• Flight Sergeant John Hooper Brooks (21)

See all 210 who died on 15 October →

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