On this day — 5 February
177 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 5 February during the Second World War.
1940
- Aircraftman 1st Class Douglas Haig Birbeck
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Darvall Poulton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Ronald Ross
- Aircraftman 1st Class William James Reynold Strachan
- Pilot Officer Arthur Hugh Moncrieff Wright
1941
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Cadman
- Corporal Rupert Bennett Hester
- Sergeant Owen Michael Jenkins
- Sergeant Rowland Clifford Jones
- Flying Officer Raymond Grant Lewis
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robin Mabbott
- Sergeant Harold Charles Orchard
- Leading Aircraftman George Wyndham Parnell
- Sergeant Lionel Henry Phillips
- Pilot Officer Gerald Herbert Pittam
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Peter Ross
- Pilot Officer Herbert Samuel Sadler
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Addison Towgood
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Walton
- Flying Officer Paul Ivan Wheeler
1942
- Second Lieutenant Bazley
- Flying Officer Tristram Edward Oliver De Beresford
- Sergeant James Edward Bond
- Pilot Officer William Sydney Brown
- Air Mechanic Gloy
- Corporal Geoffrey Edward Hansord
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Herbert Hughes
- Sergeant Harlow Eugene Johnson
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Maxam Lindsay
- Sergeant William Adamson Moodie
- Air Mechanic O'Brien
- Sergeant Thomas Patrick O'Riordan
- Flight Sergeant Wesley Alexander Pickering
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander Dey Robinson
- Sergeant Arthur William Rolfe
- Leading Aircraftman James Gilmore Ross
- Leading Aircraftman George William Rowley
- Pilot Officer James Hugh Watt
1943
- Squadron Leader Hugo Throssell Armstrong
- Flight Sergeant Arthur James Douglas Barton
- Leading Aircraftman James Colin Bell
- Sergeant Wilfred Billingham
- Leading Aircraftman John Thomas Bowler
- Sergeant Gerald Macness Bown
- Sergeant Kenneth Clithero
- Flight Sergeant Leslie John Corfield
- Flight Sergeant Frank Crighton
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Reginald Crump
- Warrant Officer Class II Leonard Allan Cumming
- Sergeant Frank William Dance
- Sergeant Amar Chandra De
- Sergeant Sidney John Dean
- Sergeant Harry Dennis
- Flight Sergeant George Wallace Dixon
- Sergeant Alfred George Dromgoole
- Sergeant Edward William C. Eaglen
- Warrant Officer Albert George Eddy
- Sergeant John Gregory Faux
- Sergeant Joseph Ernest Francis
- Sergeant Patrick Paul Deane Freeman
- Sergeant William Henry Gladwell
- Sergeant Ernest Henry Joseph Groves
- Flight Sergeant Brian Godfrey Hancorn
- Flight Sergeant John Albert Harcourt
- Pilot Officer Fred Hodge
- Flight Sergeant Nelson Earl Holness
- Flying Officer Keith Campbell Johanson
- Flying Officer Arthur Selwyn Jones
- Flying Officer James Hector Lennox Kemp
- Flight Sergeant Harold James Knight
- Flight Lieutenant Howard Otis Knowles
- Pilot Officer John Richard Latour-eppy
- Sergeant Robert Colin Legge
- Sergeant David Livingston
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Allan Mackenzie
- Sergeant Jack Herbert Manning
- Flying Officer Herbert Leslie Martin
- Flight Sergeant Peter Frederick McCarthy
- Sergeant Roy McKenzie
- Pilot Officer John Hickson Gordon Moriarty
- Flying Officer John Norley Myers
- Flight Sergeant Mathew Simpson Napier
- Flight Lieutenant Denis Joseph Passadoro
- Pilot Officer James Alexander Paterson
- Sergeant Ernest Edward Paul
- Squadron Leader Reginald John Peacock
- Warrant Officer Class II Timothy Alphonse Pertus
- Sergeant Cyril George Phillips
- Pilot Officer Francis Marion Pierce
- Sergeant Stanley Thomas Pollard
- Sergeant Randolph Ernest Redding
- Sergeant George Robinson
- Leading Aircraftman John Malcolm Saxby
- Sergeant George Scott
- Pilot Officer David Shingleton-smith
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Ellis Shires
- Leading Aircraftman Kevin France Slaweski
- Flight Sergeant Alan Rodway Smith
- Sergeant Thomas James Symons
- Leading Aircraftman Geoffrey James Taylor
- Sergeant Thomas Charlton Toy
- Sergeant Harold Oscar Walton
- Sergeant Frank Whitwell
- Sergeant William Alfred Wilkinson
- Flight Sergeant Wesley William Wilson
1944
- Flight Sergeant James Anderson
- Flying Officer Alan Greeves Archibald
- Warrant Officer Alfred Stewart Arnold
- Warrant Officer Stanley Beaton
- Flight Sergeant William John Barrie Bishop
- Flying Officer Norman Peter Blacklock
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Harden Goyen Blight
- Flight Sergeant Henry Arnold Booth
- Leading Aircraftman Jim Bradley
- Flying Officer Ronald William Bremner
- Flying Officer Richard Samuel Henry Browning
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Cecil Bull
- Warrant Officer Class I Alfred G.t. Burnett
- Flight Sergeant Alan Campbell
- Sergeant John Carless
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Carling
- Sergeant Henry Denton Clough
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Thomas Cox
- Flying Officer Francis Thomas Culling-mannix
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Walter Darnell
- Sergeant James Scott Duguid
- Flight Sergeant Douglas George England
- Flying Officer Walter Lawrence Englert
- Warrant Officer Matthew James Fahey
- Sergeant Frank William Gander
- Sergeant Ronald Ernest Green
- Flying Officer Peter Oscar Hedges
- Flying Officer Harry Rex Horley
- Pilot Officer Arthur Brodie Kearon
- Flight Sergeant Cecil Herbert Kent
- Air Corporal Herbert A. Kingsley
- Flight Sergeant William Clifton Kinsman
- Flying Officer Frederick Charles Langridge
- Flying Officer John Rothwell Lindley
- Warrant Officer Cyril Spencer Luke
- Sergeant Charles Graham Magness
- Flying Officer Keith Robert McCormick
- Flying Officer Mennel
- Flight Lieutenant Ian Stanley Miller
- Flying Officer Thomas Moore
- Sergeant Bruce Nicholson
- Sergeant Cyril Ostler
- Sergeant Philip Fred Palmer
- Leading Aircraftman William Francis Pearce
- Sergeant William Francis Reid
- Warrant Officer Class I Edmund George Richards
- Flying Officer David Allan Rowat
- Aircraftman 1st Class Douglas Leonard Savill
- Flight Lieutenant John Fosbroke Slatter
- Flight Sergeant Guy Edmund Smith
- Sergeant John Charles Speechly
- Pilot Officer Walter Szportan
- Sergeant Dennis Frederick Taylor
- Sergeant John Macleod Thomlison
- Flying Officer Denis Thomas Williamson
- Warrant Officer Class II Lionel Howard Woodruff
- Pilot Officer Edmund Legh Woolcott
- Flying Officer John Worth Wright
1945
- Flight Lieutenant John Preston Barlow
- Flight Lieutenant Douglass John Alexander Buchanan
- Pilot Officer John Leslie Foreman
- Flying Officer Jack Arthur Gibbs
- Flight Lieutenant William Robert Kearns
- Flight Sergeant Dixon Ross Keast
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Sidney Sampson
- Flying Officer Donald William Spence
- Flight Sergeant Ian Albert West
- Flying Officer William George Whitton