Düsseldorf

Date

10 September 1942

Target

Düsseldorf, Germany

Force dispatched

479 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

218 airmen in this archive died on 10 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.

• Sergeant Alfred Joseph Adams
• Pilot Officer John Robert Agar
• Sergeant Roland Ainsworth (22)
• Sergeant Thomas Peter Allenby (22)
• Sergeant Charles Norman Anderson (22)
• Flight Sergeant William Oswald Anderson (27)
• Flight Sergeant Walter Mowbray Andrews
• Sergeant Albert Edgar Arnold (23)
• Flight Sergeant Harry Ernest Bannister (31)
• Sergeant Norman James Barlow (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Leslie Ronald Barr (28)
• Sergeant Frank Brenner Byron Bayly (19)
• Flying Officer Argyle Donald Beatty (22)
• Sergeant Charles Herbert Leslie Bell (21)
• Sergeant Wilfred Thomas Belton
• Flight Sergeant Richard Edgar Bertram
• Flight Sergeant John Lawrence Blair (32)
• Sergeant Kenneth Oswald Bower
• Sergeant Reginald William Bowler
• Leading Aircraftman Albert Bretter
• Sergeant Edgar Tong Briggs (26)
• Flight Sergeant Albert Ernest Brown (28)
• Flight Sergeant John Alexander Bryden (26)
• Flight Sergeant Frank Burrill

See all 218 who died on 10 September →

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