Münchengladbach

Date

13 June 1944

Target

Münchengladbach

Force dispatched

20 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

172 airmen in this archive died on 13 June 1944 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.

• Flying Officer James Richard Alexander
• Flying Officer Alexander Allan (27)
• Pilot Officer Donald John Applin (21)
• Flying Officer Raymond Arnold (21)
• Pilot Officer Jack Thomas Battye (36)
• Lieutenant Begbie (26)
• Pilot Officer John Albert Bergeron (19)
• Flying Officer Gordon Wilmer Besley
• Leading Aircraftman Albert Beverstock (58)
• Sergeant William McKay Biehl
• Flying Officer William Ross Blain (24)
• Pilot Officer Westley Lawrence Blanchard
• Pilot Officer Robert Longworth Botsford (28)
• Pilot Officer Trevor Wilmot Boyce (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Francis Thomas Sargent Brice (25)
• Flying Officer Harry Arthur Bulger Brown (27)
• Flying Officer George David Wills Buchanan (20)
• Pilot Officer James Edward Byers
• Sergeant Patrick Cameron (22)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth John Campbell (24)
• Pilot Officer Richard Edward John Campbell (20)
• Squadron Leader John William Carmichael (25)
• Pilot Officer George William Carruthers
• Flying Officer Laird Wallace Cartwright

See all 172 who died on 13 June →

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