Essen

Date

16 September 1942

Target

Essen, Germany

Force dispatched

369 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

266 airmen in this archive died on 16 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.

• Pilot Officer Francis James Adams (31)
• Sergeant Kenneth Gordon Adcock
• Sergeant William James Anderson (23)
• Sergeant William Gordon Archer (25)
• Sergeant Douglas Gordon William Arnold (22)
• Sergeant Sam Hawley Atkinson (19)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Baillie (19)
• Sergeant Joseph Smillie Balfour (24)
• Squadron Leader Henry Walter Barnard (26)
• Pilot Officer Leslie John Barnes (21)
• Leading Aircraftman David Barnett (35)
• Sergeant Alexander Mackenzie Bartlett (21)
• Flight Sergeant Leslie John William Beckman (20)
• Flight Sergeant Leslie Edwin Bell (23)
• Sergeant Richard Bell
• Flying Officer Victor Dominic Benefield (28)
• Sergeant Jack William Augustus Bennett (34)
• Sergeant Jack Berry (18)
• Sergeant Eric Denis Booty (25)
• Sergeant Keith Arnold Bouffler (21)
• Warrant Officer Class I Philip Sibbald Ogilvie Brichta (31)
• Sergeant Harry Mayo Richard Broadhead (29)
• Sergeant Fred William Brogden
• Flight Sergeant Alfred Bryan Brooks (20)

See all 266 who died on 16 September →

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