Holland

Date

29 October 1942

Target

Holland

Force dispatched

25 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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

152 airmen in this archive died on 29 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 Frederick Charles Adams
• Corporal William Hubert Amann (19)
• Pilot Officer Basil Wilfred Andrews (25)
• Flight Sergeant John Eric Armstrong (24)
• Pilot Officer Alan Hubert Athill (20)
• Corporal William Gordon Axton
• Sergeant William Baird (25)
• Sergeant Thomas Whiteley Balmforth (30)
• Sergeant Frederick Barker
• Sergeant Jack Henry Barnett (19)
• Sergeant Charles Stewart Barrie (22)
• Sergeant Bertram Arthur Beeney (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick Claude Bell
• Sergeant Cyril Herbert Bennett (22)
• Sergeant Arthur Beswick (21)
• Flight Sergeant Herbert Joseph Birtwistle (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Eric William Blanchard (27)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Clinton Llewellyn Thomas Bradley (28)
• Flying Officer Stanley Gordon Bromley (29)
• Sergeant Eric Brookes (28)
• Sergeant Norman Richards Brunt (32)
• Sergeant James Harry Bryan (20)
• Sergeant Sidney Burr (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Richard Stafford Candy

See all 152 who died on 29 October →

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