Duisburg

Date

6 September 1942

Target

Duisburg, Germany

Force dispatched

207 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 6 September 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 Robert David Adamson (23)
• Pilot Officer Robin Alexander Ainslie (32)
• Pilot Officer Henry William Aldridge
• Sergeant Frederick Norman Andrew (23)
• Pilot Officer James Albert George Anscomb (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class William Henry Archer (18)
• Pilot Officer Noel Galbraith Bailey
• Sergeant Robert Band (29)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Bannerman-pillai
• Flight Sergeant John Norman Barker (25)
• Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Barron (22)
• Sergeant Geoffrey Harcourt Bennett (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Neville Arthur Bennitt (31)
• Sergeant Charles Edward Benstead (28)
• Flight Sergeant James William Biggs (19)
• Sergeant Lawrence Eric Billings (23)
• Flying Officer John Birkbeck (22)
• Pilot Officer Paul Arthur Bourke (28)
• Flight Sergeant Reginald James Bowes (22)
• Sergeant Arthur Bradshaw (32)
• Leading Aircraftman Patrick John Brady (24)
• Sergeant Geoffrey William Brewster (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Wallis Arrmit Brown (27)
• Sergeant John Bumpstead (28)

See all 172 who died on 6 September →

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