Oberhausen
14 June 1943 — Oberhausen
- Date
- 14 June 1943
- Target
- Oberhausen, Germany
- Force dispatched
- 197 aircraft
Narrative
Oberhausen, a steel and coal town in the heart of the Ruhr, was attacked on the night of 14/15 June 1943 by around 197 aircraft during the Battle of the Ruhr. The Oboe-led marking was accurate and the town centre was hit hard. Losses were heavy in proportion to the small force — the German night-fighter defences over ‘Happy Valley’ were by now at their most dangerous.
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
210 airmen in this archive died on 14 June 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.
- Sergeant Clifford Walter Akeister
- Sergeant John Hubert Armstrong (31)
- Sergeant Herbert Ivor Ashdown (19)
- Sergeant Robert James Bailes (22)
- Pilot Officer Norman Lewis Ballamy (21)
- Sergeant Angus Granger Ballantyne (22)
- Sergeant Conrad Alfred Stanley Barnett (19)
- Sergeant Robert Allen Beaton (22)
- Sergeant Claude Stephen Bell (35)
- Sergeant Robert Ernest Bell
- Flight Sergeant Theodore Albert Belot (28)
- Sergeant Harry Biggin (20)
- Flight Sergeant Sydney Dennis Bird (23)
- Flight Sergeant Doric Phillip Birk (23)
- Sergeant Ronald Boardman
- Sergeant Ernest Anthony Bogle
- Sergeant Robert Borthwick (31)
- Sergeant Kenneth Ivor Bowerman (20)
- Sergeant Jack Stewart Boyd (20)
- Sergeant Alfred Boydell (20)
- Sergeant Ronald Charles Henry Brand
- Sergeant Derek Walter Brough (20)
- Flight Lieutenant Alan McKeand Brown (22)
- Pilot Officer Douglas Stewart Brown
See all 210 who died on 14 June →
Source: Wikipedia — Battle of the Ruhr →