Munich

Date

19 September 1942

Target

Munich, Germany

Force dispatched

11 aircraft

Aircraft lost

3

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

118 airmen in this archive died on 19 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.

• Flight Sergeant Percy John Apps (21)
• Sergeant Alan Richard Ashford
• Aircraftman 1st Class Albert John Asker (28)
• Sergeant James Edwin Bailey
• Flight Sergeant William David John Harper Ball (20)
• Sergeant Robert George Bassett (32)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Robert Bee (22)
• Sergeant Arthur Joseph Betteridge (33)
• Pilot Officer Albert Birchall (23)
• Sergeant Frank Elliott Bishop (29)
• Sergeant John Arthur Bradshaw (29)
• Flying Officer Harry Sutton Brander (25)
• Sergeant Walter Alan Frederick Brannon (25)
• Flight Sergeant Paul Franklin Brawley
• Leading Aircraftman William Albert Brooks (21)
• Sergeant Thomas Beatty Brown (24)
• Sergeant Unich Edward Thomas Burford
• Pilot Officer Raymond Gilbert Burrage (20)
• Pilot Officer Howard Houston Burton (32)
• Flight Lieutenant Alan James Child (24)
• Sergeant Arthur John Clague (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Russell Thomas Joshua Collett (28)
• Pilot Officer Eric Arthur Coombes (35)
• Sergeant Turner Crankshaw (22)

See all 118 who died on 19 September →

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