Milan

Date

14 August 1943

Target

Milan, Italy

Force dispatched

148 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

154 airmen in this archive died on 14 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.

• Flight Sergeant Arthur Louis Aaron (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Frederick Wallace Anderson (23)
• Sergeant Gordon Arthur Angwin (21)
• Sergeant Kenneth Ashmore (19)
• Flight Sergeant David George Aubrey (22)
• Pilot Officer Alfred Alexander Balcombe
• Sergeant Michael Stanley Barnard
• Flight Sergeant Richard John Henry Barron (22)
• Flying Officer Arthur Valentine Bary (22)
• Aircraftman 1st Class John Alexander Henlen Bascombe (29)
• Warrant Officer Alan Lennox Bathurst (30)
• Flying Officer Raymond Melvin Bell
• Flying Officer Harry Malcolm Beyer (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Frederick Brian Biddulph (21)
• Sergeant Maurice Arthur Bishop (28)
• Sergeant William Michael Bladen (22)
• Flying Officer John Sculthorpe Blunt (20)
• Sergeant Daniel David Boyd
• Sergeant Kenneth Thomas Brentnall (21)
• Flying Officer Edwin Swayne Brenton (29)
• Flying Officer Arthur Brown (27)
• Sergeant Ronald Brown
• Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Hugh Cecil Browne (26)
• Flight Lieutenant Gordon Buckland (23)

See all 154 who died on 14 August →

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