Mainz

Date

12 August 1942

Target

Mainz, Germany

Force dispatched

138 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

183 airmen in this archive died on 12 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.

• Sergeant James Alexander Adamson (19)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas William Sheridan Addison (30)
• Sergeant John Warren Badley (20)
• Sergeant Henry Lewis Baker
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Smith Barclay (22)
• Flying Officer Roger Phillip Barker (22)
• Pilot Officer Derrick John Harry Beaton (22)
• Flight Sergeant Paton Bell (20)
• Sergeant John Walter Benn (32)
• Flight Sergeant Charles George Bentley (26)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Alfred Betts (22)
• Sergeant Lester John Blackmore (23)
• Sergeant Richard Barry Blockley (21)
• Sergeant Joel Bogard (22)
• Pilot Officer Felix Paget Boswell (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Cyril Kenneth George Bowrey (19)
• Flight Sergeant Reginald Stanley Brandon (28)
• Sergeant Leonard Charles Bray (28)
• Leading Aircraftman Maxwell Bray (23)
• Warrant Officer Class II Bernard Anthony Brophy (32)
• Sergeant Harold Brown (22)
• Sergeant James Eden (jim) Browning (20)
• Flight Sergeant Stanley Lloyd George Buchanan
• Flight Sergeant Robert Athol Buntine (24)

See all 183 who died on 12 August →

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