Milan
14 February 1943 — Milan
- Date
- 14 February 1943
- Target
- Milan, Italy
- Force dispatched
- 142 aircraft
Narrative
After a winter pause the campaign against Italy resumed on the night of 14/15 February 1943, when 142 Lancasters attacked Milan with around 275 tons of high explosive and incendiaries. The renewed raids added to the war-weariness that would, that summer, help topple Mussolini and take Italy out of the war.
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
151 airmen in this archive died on 14 February 1943 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.
- Flying Officer Derek Arthur Allen (23)
- Sergeant Francis Henry Allen (21)
- Flying Officer Ronald Allin (32)
- Sergeant Jack Andrew (20)
- Flying Officer William Alexander McLean Archibald
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Edward Austin (19)
- Flight Sergeant Frank Stanley Barnes (31)
- Wing Commander Sedley Stewart Blanchard
- Flying Officer Roger Bokobza (21)
- Sergeant Henry George Bone (29)
- Sergeant Dennis Booker (22)
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Bool (35)
- Sergeant John Henry Bousfield (27)
- Sergeant Jack Bowler (28)
- Sergeant Eric Brook (26)
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Buckley (30)
- Flying Officer Ernest John Butler (24)
- Flight Sergeant Sidney William Cains (24)
- Sergeant Richard Foote Cairns (24)
- Leading Aircraftman Neil James Herbert Campbell (20)
- Sergeant Stanley Richard Cann
- Leading Aircraftman John Carden (22)
- Sergeant William Michael Carney (20)
- Sergeant George Cave (22)