Duisburg

Date

24 September 1943

Target

Duisburg, Germany

Force dispatched

39 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

113 airmen in this archive died on 24 September 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.

• Flight Sergeant David Abercrombie (31)
• Flying Officer John Albert Ainge (23)
• Flying Officer David Maurice Anderson (24)
• Warrant Officer Class II William Henry Arnold (22)
• Flying Officer Richard Harry Mellor Bailey (30)
• Flight Sergeant Albert William Henry Ballard (34)
• Sergeant Dennis Norman Barker (21)
• Flying Officer Harold Frid Beale (20)
• Corporal Philip Jack Frank Beer (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Nathaniel Ross Beggs (21)
• Sergeant John Vickery Bowman (19)
• Sergeant Edward Oscar Bryant (19)
• Flight Sergeant William Charles Budd (21)
• Sergeant Alec Edward Carter (22)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Patrick Chadwick (31)
• Flight Lieutenant Vladislav Chocholin
• Flying Officer Francis Joseph Staff Clayden
• Pilot Officer John Blair Cochrane
• Sergeant Leslie Collis (19)
• Pilot Officer Eric Charles Cook
• Wing Commander Charles Stanley Cooper (29)
• Flight Sergeant Ivor Cotton (31)
• Warrant Officer Class II Brian Vincent Crist (24)
• Flying Officer Clifford Lorne Cullen (23)

See all 113 who died on 24 September →

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