Essen

Date

12 April 1942

Target

Essen, Germany

Force dispatched

251 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

111 airmen in this archive died on 12 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 Maxwell Addess
• Corporal Roy Ernest Andrews (26)
• Pilot Officer Melville Henry Ball (21)
• Pilot Officer Ronald William Barlow (25)
• Leading Aircraftman John Robert Black (26)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Hammond Black (22)
• Flying Officer Ernest Anthony Blair (28)
• Sergeant Noel Hensley Blair (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Tom Duncan Bower (19)
• Sergeant William Bray (21)
• Sergeant Arthur Broadbent (25)
• Flying Officer Roye Wilmott Brown (23)
• Sergeant Denis Riddel Burn (23)
• Sergeant Cyril John Edmund Butler
• Flight Sergeant Duncan Campbell (34)
• Leading Aircraftman Fred Curtis Cannings (26)
• Sergeant Samuel Capewell (20)
• Sergeant Walter Cobell
• Sergeant Stanley Albert Coleman (29)
• Sergeant Keith Stanley Cornwell (19)
• Sergeant Ralph Harry Crews
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas Croft (22)
• Pilot Officer John Arthur Crouchman (32)
• Pilot Officer William Culmsee

See all 111 who died on 12 April →

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