Frankfurt

Date

2 December 1942

Target

Frankfurt, Germany

Force dispatched

112 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

91 airmen in this archive died on 2 December 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 John Martin Beart Albrecht (23)
• Sergeant Felix Henry Aldous (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas Edward Arridge (24)
• Sergeant Everard Aloysius Aspell (25)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph Henry Batty (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Clephan William Hamilton Bell (37)
• Aircraftman 1st Class George Sydney Bell (33)
• Corporal Gerald Robert Benstead (34)
• Sergeant Alfred Brindle (22)
• Sergeant Erlin Leslie Ross Brown (30)
• Warrant Officer Class I George Thomas Campbell (24)
• Pilot Officer Wladyslaw Marya Maurycy Ciechanowski
• Corporal James Harry (jim) Crebbin (22)
• Corporal Edward Cross
• Flying Officer Robert Morison Cumming (21)
• Flight Sergeant Harold Thomas Cunningham (25)
• Flight Sergeant Christopher Higham Curling (24)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Daniels (32)
• Aircraftman 1st Class William Raymond Davies (22)
• Flight Sergeant Lawrence Keith Day (26)
• Sergeant Hedley Dyke (21)
• Flying Officer John James Earls
• Flight Sergeant Theodore Ian Mardon Edwards (22)
• Aircraftman 1st Class George Elrick (29)

See all 91 who died on 2 December →

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