On this day — 20 May
252 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 20 May during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Duncan Henry James Barrett
- Aircraftman 1st Class Raymond Bird
- Pilot Officer Bryan Seymour Booth
- Pilot Officer Arthur Edmond Quentin Bourgeois
- Pilot Officer Roger William Burton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leslie George Curry
- Pilot Officer John Harold Day
- Flight Lieutenant Stephen Dodds
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Michael David Dolan
- Pilot Officer Lionel Roger Dorrien Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Herbert Gumbleton
- Pilot Officer Dennis Frederick Stanford Holbrook
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Edward Jacobs
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leonard Jenkins
- Aircraftman 1st Class John McGrath
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald John Newberry
- Flight Lieutenant David William Hew Owen
- Corporal Wilfred Passey
- Flight Lieutenant Michael Fitzwilliam Peacock
- Sergeant Douglas Arthur Thomas Sheldrick
- Pilot Officer Richard William Shrewsbury
- Pilot Officer Semon George Tatar
- Sergeant Kenneth Victor Thrift
- Sergeant Stanley Thomas Banks Wallis
- Sergeant Harry Bulkeley Wood
1941
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth George Abbott
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Frederick Betts
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander Bruce Birrell
- Warrant Officer John Burke
- Aircraftman 1st Class Mervyn Sidney Goodhand
- Sergeant Maxwell Hoyes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Percival Hutchinson
- Pilot Officer Patrick Louis Villette Hutt
- Sergeant Claude Jones
- Sergeant James Lambert
- Sergeant Ronald George Mew
- Flight Lieutenant Albert Melville Ross
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Stewart
- Leading Aircraftman Denziel Jonah Thomas
- Flying Officer Russell Henry Wiens
- Corporal Frank Thomas Williams
1942
- Sergeant Harry Edgar Wreyford Ansell
- Flight Sergeant William Alan Baird
- Pilot Officer George Harman Baker
- Sergeant Clifford Allan Bell
- Pilot Officer Ronald Arthur Bowker
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Bracken
- Pilot Officer William Roy Bradley
- Sergeant Harold Phillip Calvert
- Sergeant Henry Eric Chapman
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Oliver Frederick Commins
- Aircraftman 1st Class Hugh Dorman
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Eric Dulson
- Sergeant Roy George Dusten
- Pilot Officer Dennis Duxfield
- Flight Sergeant Jack Everitt
- Sergeant Robert James Godney Fairweather
- Sergeant Francis Edwin Flint
- Pilot Officer Robert Deane Flitton
- Pilot Officer William John Fulton
- Sergeant George William Goldson Harding
- Sergeant Bernard William Harris
- Pilot Officer William Asher Hayworth
- Sergeant William Helliwell
- Pilot Officer Denis Hellyer
- Sergeant John Cornish Higham
- Pilot Officer Irvine Frank Hoidas
- Flight Sergeant Ronald William Hood
- Sergeant Frank Stanley Howard
- Sergeant Victor Charles Howick
- Flight Sergeant James Ernest Hughes
- Sergeant Frederick D'Orsa Hunter
- Flight Lieutenant Alexander Burnett Hutchison
- Corporal Francis Clair Johnston
- Flight Sergeant Gerald John Patrick Kearns
- Pilot Officer Clifford Lewis
- Flight Sergeant George Thomas Mantle
- Flight Sergeant Donald Mathieson
- Squadron Leader Thomas Campbell McGillivray
- Flight Sergeant Albert Andrew Miller
- Pilot Officer Alexander Macgregor Mennie Mitchell
- Flight Sergeant Wallace Mitchell
- Sergeant Edward James Morris
- Flight Lieutenant Rowland Parr
- Flight Sergeant Norman Frank Payne
- Flight Lieutenant Hector Garrick Pilling
- Sergeant Richard Lionel Prosser
- Sergeant Dennis John Raynes
- Flight Sergeant Dudley Herman Reed
- Flight Lieutenant Patrick Elmore Rees
- Flight Sergeant George Merlyn Riches
- Sergeant Caradoc Roberts
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Plimmer Russell
- Pilot Officer Arthur Douglas John Salt
- Sergeant Edward Albert Samuel
- Flight Sergeant Robert Porter Shannon
- Warrant Officer William Bernard J. Sharp
- Flying Officer Nicholas John Stabb
- Sergeant Charles Corbett Stevens
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Clayton Taylor
- Sergeant Fred Tomkins
- Pilot Officer Edward Francis Valentine
- Flight Sergeant Howard Cameron Watson
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Vincent Whelan
- Pilot Officer Maldwyn Wyn Williams
- Flying Officer Henry Willis
- Warrant Officer Graham Sharp Wilson
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Henry Winters
- Leading Aircraftman Ambrose Edward Wright
1943
- Sergeant James (jimmy) Arkle
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry Ernest Baker
- Squadron Leader Edgar Valetta Bashford
- Warrant Officer Ray John Baxter
- Flight Sergeant Archibald Campbell
- Corporal Alan Vivien Samuel Chapman
- Sergeant Thomas Arnold Chapman
- Flying Officer William Robert Cleland
- Flying Officer Reginald Edward George Devlin
- Sergeant Edgar Dewhurst
- Sergeant Cyril Ingram Dodson
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Leslie Dore
- Sergeant Ronald William Bruce Dowell
- Leading Aircraftman Ralph Kenneth Genge
- Leading Aircraftman Aloysius Patrick Gilmore
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Alfred Gunn
- Sergeant Lessel John Hampstead
- Leading Aircraftman Peter James Handibode
- Sergeant George James Holt
- Corporal Harold William Charles Hudson
- Sergeant Irwin Hunter
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Albert Isaac
- Flight Sergeant John Ross Keeping
- Sergeant Ian Ewing Kirk
- Flight Lieutenant Michael Clifford Knight
- Leading Aircraftman George McClellan
- Sergeant Patrick McCombie
- Warrant Officer Class II Francis Arthur Robert Milbury
- Flying Officer Albert Henry Moore
- Sergeant Reginald Stanley Moore
- Sergeant Norman Kenneth Newham
- Flying Officer Eric Conway North
- Sergeant Norman James Owen
- Flying Officer Vincent John Patston
- Aircraftman 1st Class Dennis James Phillips
- Pilot Officer David Alexander Pitchers
- Corporal John Robert Plaice
- Flight Sergeant Norman Donald Pollock
- Flying Officer Russell Melvin Reisner
- Flight Sergeant Denys Walter Riddle
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Dixon Ridley
- Sergeant Thomas Robson
- Flight Lieutenant Denis Saunders
- Flying Officer Edward Guy Simonds
- Flying Officer Graham Lloyd Thorneloe Smith
- Flying Officer Peter Roy Crompton Sykes
- Sergeant Graham Montgomery Walker
- Pilot Officer Harry James Wallace
- Warrant Officer Class II Hugh Dennis George Ward
- Aircraftman 1st Class Richard Warnett
- Sergeant Norman Claude Watling
- Leading Aircraftman William Alexander White
1944
- Flying Officer James Alexander Abbott
- Flying Officer Sydney Louis Anderson
- Pilot Officer Samuel Stephen Atkin
- Squadron Leader John Baker
- Flying Officer Robert John Barber
- Wing Commander James Fraser Barron
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Willie Yvon Bibeau
- Sergeant Arthur Thomas Blunden
- Pilot Officer John Herbert Booth
- Flight Lieutenant Alan Gordon Byers
- Flight Sergeant Archibald Burton Campbell
- Warrant Officer Class I Charles Bernard Everett Clow
- Squadron Leader Philip Robert Coldwell
- Sergeant Geoffrey Douglas Cossins
- Corporal Cyril James Coulman
- Flight Sergeant William Sidney Creber
- Leading Aircraftman William John Arthur Davis
- Squadron Leader John Mervyn Dennis
- Flying Officer Harold Ernest Dinnage
- Sergeant Frederick Irving Drever
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Philip Fenwick
- Sergeant John Edwin Garnsey
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Frederick Arthur Giles
- Sergeant Percy Albert Harrison
- Flying Officer John Victor Hayward
- Flight Sergeant Alan Douglas Heath
- Flying Officer William Eric Hemingway
- Flight Sergeant Donald Lawrence Herman
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald James Hewett
- Warrant Officer Reginald Thomas Hunt
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Bell Hunt
- Flying Officer Maurice Wade Hustwick
- Pilot Officer Stuart Biddulph Ingram
- Pilot Officer John Robert Irving
- Flight Sergeant Francis Douglas Jewell
- Pilot Officer Rhys Webb Jones
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Geoffrey Rouse Kemp
- Leading Aircraftman Alan Ernest King
- Flying Officer Roger Singleton Knapp
- Sergeant Peter Joseph John Kofoed
- Warrant Officer Joseph Lamonby
- Flight Sergeant Alfred George Lawrence
- Warrant Officer Allan Little
- Flying Officer Edmund Thornley Lund
- Flying Officer William Hamish Macdonald
- Flight Sergeant Francis Maloney
- Sergeant Reginald Marshall
- Pilot Officer Joseph Lloyd Clinton Masson
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Richard Mather
- Sergeant Bruce Reginald McGimsie
- Flying Officer Lyle Manhire McLaren
- Flight Lieutenant Albert Edwards Meadows
- Pilot Officer Leonard Eugene Mehden
- Flying Officer Leo James Murray
- Flight Sergeant Walter Francis James Nolan
- Flying Officer William Norman
- Sergeant Ivor Collins Plumb
- Flying Officer Joseph Basil Poole
- Flight Lieutenant William Ford Watson Porteous
- Pilot Officer Albert Price
- Sergeant Joseph Rafferty
- Flying Officer Francis George Raine
- Flying Officer Ronald Stuart Roe
- Warrant Officer Class II Donald John Scott
- Flight Sergeant Edward Henry John Shearing
- Flying Officer Alan Field Grant Smart
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Stealey
- Flight Sergeant Harold John Walter Stevens
- Flight Sergeant Victor Henry Tayton
- Sergeant John Terry
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Gray Thurston
- Sergeant Leonard Timmins
- Flying Officer Jack William Walters
- Flying Officer Weatherall
- Flight Sergeant Derek William Wood
1945
- Flight Sergeant Robert Arthur Adams
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Walter Allen
- Flying Officer William Beresford Arnold
- Flight Sergeant Lester Maxwell Bailey
- Sergeant John Beattie
- Flying Officer William Samuel Bell
- Flight Sergeant Donald Douglas Benson
- Warrant Officer Bernard Leslie Cox
- Sergeant Leonard Duncanson
- Flight Sergeant Ivan Nelson Luke Easton
- Flight Sergeant John Raymond Wilbur Herps
- Flight Sergeant John Austin Hollis
- Warrant Officer Thomas Nathan Rust
- Flight Lieutenant Francis Leonard Sismey
- Warrant Officer Aaron Patrick Underwood