Le Havre

Date

25 October 1942

Target

Le Havre, France

Force dispatched

15 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

126 airmen in this archive died on 25 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.

• Leading Aircraftman Douglas Arthur Abbott (21)
• Leading Aircraftman John James Allan (20)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Edgar Buckler Bedford
• Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Bell
• Flying Officer Richard Alanson Bendwig
• Sergeant Brian John Waldron Boyle (28)
• Leading Aircraftman Edward Owen Brian (36)
• Sergeant William George Brown (19)
• Wing Commander Harry St. George Burke (33)
• Leading Aircraftman Lloyd Reginald Alexander Burns (20)
• Sergeant George Aubrey Bushnell (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Keith Dooks Campbell (23)
• Leading Aircraftman John Franklin Carr (25)
• Pilot Officer Robert Herbert Chapman (20)
• Corporal Clifford Thoralf Christopherson (25)
• Sergeant Sidney Arthur Claridge (20)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Henry Thomas Clements (19)
• Sergeant George Alfred Frederick Couzens (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Wesley Bruce Danielson (20)
• Flying Officer Haraldur Johannes Davidson (29)
• Sergeant Lance George Davis (28)
• Sergeant Vallance Albert Oliver Dimock (22)
• Pilot Officer Rayden Kingsley Ross Dunning (27)
• Lieutenant Ernest Gerald Dustow (25)

See all 126 who died on 25 October →

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