Duisburg

Date

9 April 1943

Target

Duisburg, Germany

Force dispatched

117 aircraft

Aircraft lost

8

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

207 airmen in this archive died on 9 April 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 Henry William Allen (20)
• Flight Sergeant William Frederick Allsopp (24)
• Flight Sergeant John Appleton
• Sergeant Charles Ronald Archer (40)
• Sergeant Sidney John Argent (22)
• Sergeant John Douglas Armstrong (20)
• Squadron Leader Jack Henry Bachmann (25)
• Flying Officer Henry Douglas Baker (24)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Bale (35)
• Flight Lieutenant Julien William Noel Balley (23)
• Pilot Officer Hubert Knight Barber (30)
• Sergeant William Arthur Barker (32)
• Pilot Officer Allan John Beer (22)
• Flight Sergeant Michael John Bennett (26)
• Sergeant Robert Julian Bennett (21)
• Sergeant Ronald Douglas Benning (21)
• Sergeant Walter Berry (22)
• Flying Officer Newton Bird
• Pilot Officer Richard Salisbury Birks
• Sergeant Roy Bishop (23)
• Corporal Alfred Blackburn (22)
• Flying Officer Gwynne Lewis Blackshaw (21)
• Sergeant George Blakeley (31)
• Sergeant Ernest Stephen Blanchard (21)

See all 207 who died on 9 April →

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