Mannheim

Date

11 February 1942

Target

Mannheim, Germany

Force dispatched

49 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

220 airmen in this archive died on 11 February 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.

• Pilot Officer Alexander Richard Abbott (23)
• Flight Lieutenant George Allen (20)
• Sergeant Alexander Bain Anderson (31)
• Pilot Officer Henry Gordon Anderson (29)
• Squadron Leader William Andrew Anderson (24)
• Flying Officer Peter Alexander Annan (25)
• Pilot Officer Gordon Kenneth Armstrong (22)
• Sergeant Frederick William Ashfield
• Sergeant John Walter Aston
• Sergeant John Haycroft Henniker Baness (24)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Eric Joseph Nutley Leighton Barlow (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Charles Brightmore Bensley (21)
• Flight Sergeant Errol Francis Gordon Blair (27)
• Sergeant Bernard Paul Blowers (24)
• Pilot Officer Walter Frederick Bond (23)
• Sergeant George Henry Bonner (32)
• Flight Sergeant Arthur Havelock Brunt (20)
• Flying Officer Frederick William Buckland
• Sergeant Keith Edward Buettel (22)
• Sergeant George Hollands Campbell (24)
• Sergeant John Canavan (28)
• Flight Lieutenant Percy Theodore Carden (57)
• Flying Officer Derek Guy Carter (22)
• Leading Aircraftman William Edwin Carter

See all 220 who died on 11 February →

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