Munich

Date

21 December 1942

Target

Munich, Germany

Force dispatched

137 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

132 airmen in this archive died on 21 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 Arthur Leslie Abraham (22)
• Sergeant Jack Hilton Baker
• Flying Officer Douglas Robert Bannerman (30)
• Sergeant Harold Bate (34)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Clifford Bee (21)
• Sergeant George Alfred Benson (20)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Bentham (22)
• Sergeant Gordon Joseph Bentley (21)
• Flying Officer Denzil Francis Heriz Biggane (24)
• Flying Officer Ronald Alfred Bowles (22)
• Pilot Officer Harry Thomas Boyes (24)
• Sergeant Robert Noel Braithwaite (22)
• Flight Sergeant John Derrick Brinkhurst (23)
• Corporal Stanley Burns (23)
• Pilot Officer Arthur Mussendine Camplin
• Sergeant Anthony Thorpe Carpenter (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Philip Cashmore (22)
• Sergeant William Kenneth Charlton (20)
• Flying Officer Eric Frank Chatterton (20)
• Pilot Officer Harold David Christian (25)
• Flying Officer Stanley William Clark (39)
• Pilot Officer Robert Guy Clarkson
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Edmond Cloutier (26)
• Sergeant Richard Cook

See all 132 who died on 21 December →

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