Milan

Date

12 August 1943

Target

Milan, Italy

Force dispatched

504 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

165 airmen in this archive died on 12 August 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.

• Pilot Officer Robert Peter Townend Akeroyd (26)
• Leading Aircraftman Mervyn Charles Arkell (22)
• Flight Sergeant Wilfred George Atkinson (23)
• Sergeant John Andrew Bacon
• Sergeant Henry Louis Hubert Bainton (25)
• Pupil Pilot John Barford
• Air Mechanic Petrus Bekker
• Flight Lieutenant Harry Curd Bennett (27)
• Flight Sergeant Stuart Bertram Billing
• Pilot Officer Kenneth Reid Bourne (21)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Leonard Bower (41)
• Warrant Officer Class II Cornelius Alfred Brennan
• Sergeant Geoffrey James Broughton
• Flight Sergeant William John Brown (22)
• Flight Sergeant Lawrence Edmund Burgess (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Alfred Henry Butterfield (39)
• Warrant Officer Class I Donald Alexander Joseph Cameron
• Sergeant Henry Cameron (20)
• Sergeant Dennis Alfred Cardy
• Sergeant Harry Denzil Chapman
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur John Clark (20)
• Flight Sergeant John Ronald Clark (29)
• Pilot Officer Gordon Harvey Clarke (32)
• Warrant Officer Ernest James Clinch (24)

See all 165 who died on 12 August →

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