Aachen

Date

5 October 1942

Target

Aachen, Germany

Force dispatched

257 aircraft

Aircraft lost

6

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

154 airmen in this archive died on 5 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.

• Pilot Officer Robert Lewis Albery (31)
• Sergeant John Marshall Armstrong
• Flight Sergeant Charles Wendell Austin
• Flight Sergeant Lawrence Banikhin (23)
• Sergeant Edward Henry Bastow (40)
• Sergeant Joseph George Wilfred Beauregard (19)
• Sergeant John Frederick Peter Behn (21)
• Sergeant William John Bowles Bennett (23)
• Sergeant James Bennie
• Sergeant John Norman Bourne (21)
• Flying Officer Neville James Briant (24)
• Flight Sergeant Howard Broom (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Cornelius Curran Buckley (22)
• Sergeant John Burke (21)
• Sergeant Philip Bertie Joseph Butcher (22)
• Flight Lieutenant John David Butler (24)
• Leading Aircraftman David James Calder (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Royston Denis William Carrington
• Sergeant Richard Carson
• Flight Sergeant Douglas Geater Chacksfield (26)
• Flight Sergeant Albert Clifford Challis (22)
• Flight Sergeant Moses Charton (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Roy Alan Frederick Chenery (22)
• Sergeant Walter Chester (28)

See all 154 who died on 5 October →

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