Munster

Date

22 January 1942

Target

Munster

Force dispatched

47 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

74 airmen in this archive died on 22 January 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 John Wilson Adey (19)
• Pilot Officer Fergus Alister Allan (24)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Herbert Amoore (21)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Ivan Victor Strachan Anderson (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Lancelot Murray Anderson (28)
• Sergeant Vincent Arthur (19)
• Sergeant Victor Reginald Baker (26)
• Sergeant Mervyn John Fitzhardinge Baldwin (33)
• Leading Aircraftman Reginald Walter Banks
• Pilot Officer Ronald Charles Beckley (23)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Marcel Pietro Belcher (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class William Henry Bell (36)
• Flight Lieutenant Joseph William Blennerhassett (23)
• Sergeant Francis Haydn Brooke (21)
• Sergeant Anthony Edward Carter (25)
• Sergeant Arthur Stuart Chantrell (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Walter Edward Cooper
• Aircraftman 1st Class Archibald Cruddas (19)
• Sergeant Francis Lindsay Cunningham (19)
• Pilot Officer Brian Philip Daniel (19)
• Pilot Officer Roland Edison Dann (25)
• Air Mechanic De Bruin (22)
• Sergeant Godfrey De Renzi (18)
• Sergeant John Edward Duval (31)

See all 74 who died on 22 January →

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