Mannheim

Date

20 December 1943

Target

Mannheim, Germany

Force dispatched

95 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

252 airmen in this archive died on 20 December 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.

• Leading Aircraftman Keith Andrew Aiton (34)
• Sergeant Louis Paul Edwin Allais (29)
• Sergeant Alexander McNeil Anderson
• Flying Officer George Varnum Andrew
• Pilot Officer William John Armour (28)
• Flight Sergeant Ralph James Ayers (23)
• Flight Sergeant Henry Laurence Baetz (20)
• Sergeant Leonard Balich
• Flight Sergeant Frank Ball (22)
• Flight Sergeant Leonard William Ball (28)
• Sergeant John Edward Barrington (21)
• Flight Sergeant David Bernard
• Flight Sergeant Sidney Albert Berry
• Squadron Leader Herbert Frank Bickerdike (21)
• Sergeant Arthur Reginald Bird (23)
• Pilot Officer Edwin John Black (23)
• Pilot Officer Alfred Henry Blackmore (21)
• Flying Officer John Blair (21)
• Flying Officer Frederick John Blake
• Sergeant John Michael Blake (21)
• Flight Sergeant Walter Steward Blake (30)
• Sergeant Norman William Edward Blatch (19)
• Flight Sergeant Jack Thomas Stillman Boddington (20)
• Pilot Officer Bernard Bolsworth

See all 252 who died on 20 December →

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