Essen

Date

4 August 1942

Target

Essen, Germany

Force dispatched

38 aircraft

Aircraft lost

3

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

89 airmen in this archive died on 4 August 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.

• Flight Sergeant James Anderson (29)
• Flying Officer Peter Allen Ball (23)
• Sergeant Alan Francis Bell (20)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Harold Bentley (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Jean Baptiste Berube (28)
• Corporal Jack Willman Bolton (21)
• Sergeant William Henry Charles Booth (22)
• Flying Officer Colin Joseph Edward Boustead (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Leslie Cadd (18)
• Sergeant Kenneth Caselton (19)
• Sergeant George Harry Churchley (22)
• Leading Aircraftman William Henry Conyers (23)
• Sergeant George Albert Cooke (32)
• Sergeant Gordon Cooper (27)
• Aircraftman 1st Class John Davies (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Philip Davis (27)
• Sergeant Harry Smith Dunbar (23)
• Flight Sergeant George Albert Firman (25)
• Leading Aircraftman Frank Edward Gage (33)
• Flight Sergeant Leonard Gamble (28)
• Sergeant Keith Albert Gleadall (22)
• Pilot Officer Albert George Grand (22)
• Sergeant Norman Edward Greasley (23)
• Flight Sergeant Donald Gregory (31)

See all 89 who died on 4 August →

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