Essen

Date

6 April 1942

Target

Essen, Germany

Force dispatched

157 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

123 airmen in this archive died on 6 April 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 John Hannaford Alexander
• Flight Lieutenant John Carlyon Anstie (31)
• Pilot Officer Frederick Herbert Ashton Ashford (22)
• Flying Officer Ludwik Karol Assman (26)
• Leading Aircraftman James Henry Attwood (25)
• Sergeant Zdzisław Babraj (22)
• Corporal George Ledingham Barclay (22)
• Sergeant Ronald Bennet Blatchley (21)
• Sergeant Albert Edward Bloor (26)
• Leading Aircraftman Milton Desmond Boland (26)
• Leading Aircraftman Robert Watson Bradford (20)
• Flight Sergeant Augustus Ludwig Brandt (30)
• Pilot Officer Paul Rigby Sinclair Brooke (29)
• Sergeant Lloyd Nelson Brown (23)
• Sergeant Robert William Burdon Brown (22)
• Pilot Officer William Finlay Budge (24)
• Leading Aircraftman John Patrick Carmody (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Williams Charles Chambers (34)
• Sergeant Philip John Coleman (21)
• Sergeant Edward Frank Collins (27)
• Flight Sergeant Francis Weeks Cooper
• Sergeant Frank Arthur Dann (21)
• Flight Sergeant Leslie Davis (24)
• Flight Sergeant Victor Reginald Dufton (24)

See all 123 who died on 6 April →

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