Frankfurt

Date

8 September 1942

Target

Frankfurt, Germany

Force dispatched

249 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

120 airmen in this archive died on 8 September 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.

• Sergeant Douglas Abberley
• Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Edward Atkinson (23)
• Flight Sergeant John Robert Baillie
• Sergeant Owen Kidd Barclay (25)
• Flight Sergeant Robin Edgell Barnard (29)
• Sergeant Ronald Earl Beilhartz (23)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Bell (23)
• Sergeant Stanley Joseph Berry (28)
• Sergeant George Herbert Arthur Birch (21)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Hedley Colin Boehm (19)
• Sergeant Dennison Pierce Broomfield (22)
• Sergeant Donald Horace Brown (22)
• Sergeant Trevor Bryan (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Neil Alexander Buchanan (28)
• Sergeant William Charles Budd (25)
• Sergeant James Cuthbert Burgon
• Sergeant Reginald William Catlin (22)
• Sergeant Henry George (pem) Challicombe (22)
• Pupil Pilot Victor Cockcroft (22)
• Sergeant Arthur Malcolm Frederick Cook (22)
• Flight Sergeant William Thomas Crabb (30)
• Sergeant Alan James Craig (20)
• Pilot Officer Dalis George Davies (24)
• Sergeant Leslie Hugh Davies (22)

See all 120 who died on 8 September →

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