Eindhoven

Date

6 December 1942

Command

Bomber Command

Target

Eindhoven

Force dispatched

93 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

187 airmen in this archive died on 6 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.

• Flying Officer Jack Sydney Abel (26)
• Flying Officer Edward John Mayer Albert (34)
• Flight Sergeant Leonard Roy Anderson (24)
• Sergeant Leonard Charles Andrews
• Sergeant David Wann Archibald
• Flight Lieutenant Hugh Arnott (23)
• Sergeant Lysle Ralph Arps (26)
• Sergeant Alexander Charles Ashton
• Sergeant Ronald Arthur Barnes (30)
• Sergeant Bernard Charles Beard
• Pilot Officer John William Beck (22)
• Flying Officer Angus Douglas Bell (22)
• Flight Sergeant Arthur Douglas Blackburn (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Robert Armstrong Bond (21)
• Pilot Officer Roland Leslie Boyes (25)
• Sergeant Ernest Albert Brookes (20)
• Lieutenant Brooks
• Sergeant Stanley Brownhill (21)
• Sergeant Frederick David Buchwalter (20)
• Sergeant George Bunnett
• Pilot Officer Ronald George Stanley Burrows (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Norman Arthur Butcher (28)
• Leading Aircraftman Gordon Eric Butt (27)
• Warrant Officer Class II John Cachia (21)

See all 187 who died on 6 December →

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