On this day — 6 May
200 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 6 May during the Second World War.
1940
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Owen Backshall
- Sergeant Oswell Beck
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Foster
- Sergeant Norman Frederick Fiddler Giddings
- Leading Aircraftman Cyril James Goddard
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Allan Ramsay
- Aircraftman 1st Class Fred Wallwork
1941
- Sergeant Thomas Merrill Adlard
- Sergeant Arthur Barron
- Flight Lieutenant Francis William Lionel C. Beaumont
- Sergeant Nathaniel Berry
- Leading Aircraftman Francis Joseph Bibby
- Sergeant Joseph Dennis Bramhall
- Aircraftman 1st Class Peter Brember
- Flight Sergeant Albert George Couch
- Sergeant William Henry Cox
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie George Cripps
- Leading Aircraftman Trevor Sylvester Davies
- Flying Officer Bennett Lorel Duffey
- Flight Sergeant Charles Esbith Armour Dunlop
- Pilot Officer James Sinclair Henry Fairweather
- Sergeant Kenneth Brian Fitzgerald
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Albert Freestone
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Godfrey Charles Gabriel
- Warrant Officer Ernest Victor Girdwood
- Sergeant Ernest Philip Hill
- Pilot Officer John Howard
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Hunnington
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Irvine
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Mervyn Lord
- Sergeant Ernest John Montague Lucey
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Boucher Moody
- Squadron Leader Gerald Tudor Palmer
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Ernest Paul
- Corporal Stanley Poole
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Eveleigh Mervyn Prickett
- Pilot Officer Ian McGregor Pringle
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Nation Steel
- Sergeant Bohumil Votruba
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ralph Kenneth Warren
- Sergeant Alfred Daniel Whitson
- Leading Aircraftman Martin Williams
1942
- Sergeant Alan Fletcher Ada
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Allen
- Corporal Basil Wilfred Anderson
- Sergeant Ewart John Andrews
- Sergeant Eric William Barfield
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Edmond Bartlett
- Flight Sergeant Donald Archibald Blue
- Flight Sergeant Allan Charles Vincent Brophy
- Sergeant Monty Holt Brothers
- Sergeant Thomas Lloyd Brown
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Case
- Sergeant Arthur Clitheroe
- Flight Sergeant William Freeborne Colville
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harold Henry Cordell
- Sergeant Thomas Alvin Crawford
- Leading Aircraftman Smith Edward Crymes
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Pinder Cushing
- Sergeant Robert Benjamin Duncombe
- Sergeant John Arthur Edwards
- Flight Lieutenant Rudolph Irwin Ehrlichman
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Jack Eland
- Corporal Charles Frederick Else
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Clifford Fleischman
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Russell Gahan
- Flight Sergeant John Patrick Hancock
- Sergeant Gaythorne Hardy
- Sergeant Anthony John Higgins
- Leading Aircraftman Geoffrey Holmes
- Flight Sergeant Erlyn Everard Kirby
- Flight Lieutenant Joseph Hyacinthe Ulysses Le Blanc
- Sergeant Robert John Lees
- Pilot Officer Patrick Henry Francis William Leland
- Flight Sergeant Jeffrey Lewis
- Aircraftman 2nd Class David Donald Lindsay
- Sergeant William Ernest Lindsell
- Sergeant Arthur Sylwood Lush
- Sergeant Geoffrey Sherwood Markland
- Flight Sergeant Arnold Grant Maxwell
- Sergeant Angus McBean
- Flight Sergeant Vernon Estey McDougall
- Sergeant Donald John McKenzie
- Sergeant John Moore
- Flight Sergeant Joseph George Murray
- Flight Sergeant Donald Kempton O'Brien
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald James Osborne
- Pilot Officer Henry Percival Palmer
- Flight Lieutenant Nathaniel Paterson
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd John Osborne Roberts
- Sergeant James Russell
- Sergeant Keith Edward Savage
- Flight Sergeant Murray Alfred Schofield
- Corporal Thomas Gordon Shand
- Sergeant Robert Watson Stewart
- Sergeant Thomas Craig Stobie
- Sergeant Harold Fulford Taylor
- Flight Sergeant William Joseph Valkenier
- Pilot Officer Frederick Wall
- Flight Sergeant Wesley Newell Ward
- Pilot Officer Robert Leonard Wootley
1943
- Sergeant Daniel Draper Ashcroft
- Sergeant Owen Bacon
- Aircraftman 1st Class Bong Sye Chong
- Sergeant William Thomas Bryant
- Captain A. G. Macr. Budd
- Flying Officer Wrinch Joseph Charles Budd
- Flying Officer Wallace Walter Howard Cornelius
- Leading Aircraftman Richard George Earl
- Sergeant Reginald Arthur Frost
- Pilot Officer Leonard George Gray
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Herbert James
- Sergeant John Dryburgh Leonard
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Lamont Mackenzie
- Corporal William Wallace McClymont
- Flying Officer Finlay McQueen
- Sergeant Gordon Christian Noesgarrd Miller
- Sergeant William Routledge Nicholls
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leonard Edwin Norris
- Flying Officer Charles Harry Norton
- Sergeant Richard Michael Parker
- Corporal William John Dunn Powell
- Flight Sergeant Selwyn James Robinson
- Lieutenant Sadler
- Sergeant Kenneth Steels
- Sergeant Leslie Raymond Thomas
- Air Mechanic Barend Daniel Tolmay
- Pilot Officer Ronald Stanley Triner
- Leading Aircraftman George William Wale
- Sergeant Cyril William Waterer
- Flying Officer Douglas James Webb
- Flight Sergeant Woods
- Sergeant Leslie George Young
1944
- Flight Lieutenant Aubrey Abram Adams
- Flight Lieutenant Byron Atkinson
- Warrant Officer Peter Lindsay Bell
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Alan Brelstaff
- Warrant Officer Allan Brown
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest Burgess
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Cairns
- Sergeant Andrew Cameron
- Sergeant John Henry Camp
- Warrant Officer Class II George Edgar Cooper
- Air Mechanic De Klerk
- Sergeant Jack Dunkley
- Flying Officer James Camp Ford
- Flight Lieutenant Norman Henry Fredman
- Flying Officer Eric Lionel Germain
- Sergeant Rae Gilmore
- Aircraftman 1st Class Herbert Stanley Greenhead
- Pilot Officer Claude Joseph Henry
- Flight Sergeant James Lambert Terence Hinchliffe
- Pilot Officer Ross Wilson Jefferies
- Flying Officer George Korski
- Sergeant Chris Harry Le Brun
- Warrant Officer Class II Franklin Thomas Mabee
- Corporal James Macdonald
- Flying Officer Duncan Farquhar Macdonald
- Flying Officer Douglas Millen Margison
- Flight Lieutenant John Leigh Milne
- Sergeant Archibald Raymond Mitchell
- Flying Officer Richard Holt Morgan
- Sergeant Stanley Thomas Murphy
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Mynett
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Irenee Wilbrod Alarie Nadeau
- Sergeant Thomas Nainby
- Flight Sergeant Albert Edward Nash
- Corporal John Leo O'Donohue
- Pilot Officer Peter Denys Parkes
- Flying Officer Frank Edward Pickering
- Flying Officer Thomas Joseph Pullin
- Sergeant Victor Cecil Alfred Raybould
- Sergeant Percy George Orman Reynolds
- Sergeant Robert Roberts
- Sergeant Ernest George Rowe
- Warrant Officer Donald Herbert Royle
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Henry Skinner
- Flight Sergeant James Arthur Smith
- Squadron Leader Harry Bernard Stephens
- Flying Officer Clare Kenneth Thain
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Thomson
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Charles Vickers
- Sergeant Victor Wadmore
- Sergeant George Walter Ward
- Flight Sergeant John Albert James Whitburn
- Leading Aircraftman Oliver James Wilcox
- Flight Sergeant William Robert Wiseman
- Sergeant Alfred Richard Wood
- Flight Lieutenant Peter William Henry Wood
1945
- Leading Aircraftman James Robert Batterham
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Carreau
- Leading Aircraftman William Joseph Craig
- Flight Lieutenant Emerson Parish
1946
- Wing Commander Robert Bruce Dashper
- Corporal Edmund John Richard Little
- Warrant Officer Francis Charles Wyatt