Munich

Date

7 January 1945

Target

Munich, Germany

Force dispatched

17 aircraft

Aircraft lost

13

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

91 airmen in this archive died on 7 January 1945 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.

• Warrant Officer Sidney Edward Abrams
• Flying Officer James Allan
• Flying Officer John Donald Stewart Barkell (21)
• Flight Sergeant Colin Edward Hunter Barnfield (19)
• Corporal Charles Arnold Beatty (43)
• Sergeant John Rudolph Bensemann (20)
• Pilot Officer Frank William Bradley
• Flight Sergeant Douglas Harold Brown
• Flight Sergeant Maxwell Bright Bruckner (20)
• Pilot Officer William Edward Burcher (22)
• Flight Sergeant Donald Fletcher Campbell (25)
• Pilot Officer Albert Spencer Blair Campton (29)
• Flying Officer John Harvey Clark (33)
• Flying Officer Charles John Clarke (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Mayo Clarke (23)
• Flying Officer Owen Munro Wovenden Clarson (22)
• Flying Officer Norman Kenneth Dunlop (21)
• Pilot Officer Grant Durnan (19)
• Flight Sergeant Verne Douglas Elliott
• Sergeant David Fell (24)
• Flying Officer Colin Kelvin Flockhart (20)
• Flying Officer George Fong (22)
• Flight Sergeant Harry Phillip Forster (27)
• Pilot Officer Lucien Andrew Joseph Gauthier

See all 91 who died on 7 January →

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