Frankfurt

Date

24 August 1942

Target

Frankfurt, Germany

Force dispatched

226 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

146 airmen in this archive died on 24 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 Joseph Antoine
• Flight Sergeant Joseph McKay Atkinson
• Sergeant Robert Walter Beales (21)
• Pilot Officer Leys Middleton Beaumont (23)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Donald Francis Bicknell (18)
• Sergeant Edward Francis Blacklock (30)
• Sergeant Lawrence Frederick George Boreham (22)
• Sergeant Eric Guy Bound
• Sergeant Edward John Box (34)
• Sergeant George Lascelles Boxall (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Horace Edward Brooker
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Murray Buchan (22)
• Pilot Officer Basil Butler (21)
• Sergeant Victor John Arthur Butler (24)
• Flight Sergeant Clifford Howard John Byrd (23)
• Sergeant James Canniff (21)
• Sergeant Francis Thomas George Cannon (22)
• Sergeant Arthur Rowland Catt (24)
• Flight Sergeant Alexander Nelson Charlton (27)
• Sergeant Eric Collingwood (22)
• Sergeant Robert John Coombs (22)
• Sergeant Alexander Cowie (21)
• Sergeant Eric William Cragg (21)
• Flight Sergeant David Leslie Thomas Craig (26)

See all 146 who died on 24 August →

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