Mainz

Date

11 August 1942

Target

Mainz, Germany

Force dispatched

154 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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

193 airmen in this archive died on 11 August 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.

• Pilot Officer John Abberton
• Flight Sergeant Thomas William Sheridan Addison (30)
• Flight Sergeant Milton Wilbur Atkins (22)
• Sergeant John Warren Badley (20)
• Sergeant Henry Lewis Baker
• Flying Officer Thomas Henry William Baker (26)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Smith Barclay (22)
• Flying Officer Roger Phillip Barker (22)
• Sergeant Druce Hawthorn Barton (21)
• Pilot Officer Derrick John Harry Beaton (22)
• Squadron Leader James Beavis (28)
• Flight Sergeant Paton Bell (20)
• Sergeant John Walter Benn (32)
• Flight Sergeant Charles George Bentley (26)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Alfred Betts (22)
• Sergeant Joel Bogard (22)
• Sergeant Jack Bonner (25)
• Pilot Officer Felix Paget Boswell (23)
• Pilot Officer George Edward Francis Bradey (25)
• Pilot Officer Stewart Gordon Brannigan (23)
• Sergeant Leonard Charles Bray (28)
• Sergeant Harold Brown (22)
• Sergeant James Eden (jim) Browning (20)
• Flight Sergeant Stanley Lloyd George Buchanan

See all 193 who died on 11 August →

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