Flensburg

Date

27 October 1942

Target

Flensburg

Force dispatched

14 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

89 airmen in this archive died on 27 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 John Henry Austin (26)
• Leading Aircraftman John Douglas Bell (23)
• Flying Officer John Hamilton Bomford (24)
• Sergeant Bert James Bradsell
• Sergeant William Henry Brazenall (29)
• Sergeant Leslie Samuel Bridges (20)
• Pilot Officer Maurice Everest Bridgland (30)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Eric Broad (26)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class William Allan Cameron (21)
• Flying Officer Stanley Carl Walter Carlson (31)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Neville Leigh Chesshire (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Leonard Cocker (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Eric Clarence Cox (28)
• Flying Officer William August Cranz (32)
• Leading Aircraftman Albert John Creed (33)
• Leading Aircraftman Harry John Joffre Day
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Spendlove Dean (22)
• Flight Sergeant David Alexander Donaldson (28)
• Flight Sergeant William George Drayton (19)
• Sergeant William Glencross Dryburgh (19)
• Pilot Officer Carroll Ronald Durrant (23)
• Flight Sergeant Harry Victor Ellerker
• Flight Sergeant Albert Vernon Elliott (20)
• Sergeant Robert Alexander Ellis (26)

See all 89 who died on 27 October →

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