Munich

Date

2 October 1943

Target

Munich, Germany

Force dispatched

117 aircraft

Aircraft lost

8

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

304 airmen in this archive died on 2 October 1943 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.

• Aircraftman 1st Class Anthony Abela
• Flight Sergeant Richard Harry Adams (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Andrew Adamson (40)
• Flying Officer David Anderson (22)
• Flying Officer Francis Victor Anderson (22)
• Corporal Stanley Harold Anderson (29)
• Sergeant Edgar James Andrews
• Sergeant Robert Mitchell Appleton (23)
• Flight Sergeant Arthur Dorrien Archer (23)
• Pilot Officer Brian Andrew Armstrong (22)
• Sergeant George Frederick Austin (30)
• Sergeant John Francis Albury Bailey (21)
• Sergeant William James Baker (20)
• Flying Officer Charles Francis (paddy) Bale (28)
• Sergeant George Kenneth Barnes
• Sergeant Timothy John Barrett (33)
• Sergeant Frederick Walter Bate (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Ernest Geoffrey Beardsmore
• Sergeant Jack Stear Beech (20)
• Sergeant John Edward Arthur Beecher (24)
• Sergeant James Philip Belfield (19)
• Flying Officer Angus Fyfe Bell
• Sergeant William Bell (22)
• Sergeant Rowland Bennett (23)

See all 304 who died on 2 October →

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