Krefeld
2 October 1942 — Krefeld
- Date
- 2 October 1942
- Target
- Krefeld, Germany
- Force dispatched
- 188 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
101 airmen in this archive died on 2 October 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.
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Charles Adsett (22)
- Lieutenant Badcock (21)
- Flight Sergeant Maxwell Ben-hertz (20)
- Sergeant David Stanley Benner (21)
- Flight Sergeant Hermanus Boonzaier (23)
- Sergeant John Robert Butler (21)
- Flying Officer Ernest Rex Butterworth (21)
- Sergeant Alfred John Carl (21)
- Sergeant Robert Charles Carrington (20)
- Lieutenant Chipps
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Christie (25)
- Sergeant Harold Moffat Clark (32)
- Sergeant John James Clarkson (24)
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Sidney Cole (21)
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Copestick
- Sergeant Stanislaus Vincent Corcoran (26)
- Sergeant Peter Cribb (20)
- Sergeant Peter Kirk Crombie (20)
- Sergeant Gordon Alfred David (26)
- Sergeant Duffy
- Warrant Officer Robert Duncan (42)
- Sergeant Allan Roy Evans (21)
- Lieutenant Thomas Finlayson (22)
- Leading Aircraftman Oliver Firmin (21)
See all 101 who died on 2 October →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →