Mannheim

Date

6 December 1942

Target

Mannheim, Germany

Force dispatched

272 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

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) →