The Ruhr

Date

5 August 1942

Target

The Ruhr

Force dispatched

25 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

108 airmen in this archive died on 5 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.

• Sergeant Frederick Samuel Akerman (23)
• Flight Sergeant James Anderson (29)
• Pilot Officer Robert Keith Anderson Andrew (25)
• Flying Officer Peter Allen Ball (23)
• Sergeant Alan Francis Bell (20)
• Sergeant Raymond Bell-berry (22)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Harold Bentley (23)
• Corporal Jack Willman Bolton (21)
• Sergeant William Henry Charles Booth (22)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Bottoms (20)
• Flying Officer Colin Joseph Edward Boustead (22)
• Pilot Officer Geoffrey Michael Brearley (20)
• Flight Sergeant John Brooks (29)
• Flight Sergeant Harold Alexander Brown (21)
• Sergeant Kenneth Caselton (19)
• Sergeant Ronald Frederick Churchill (22)
• Sergeant John William Clarke (29)
• Aircraftman 1st Class William Henry Montague Cole
• Sergeant James Colville (24)
• Leading Aircraftman William Henry Conyers (23)
• Sergeant George Albert Cooke (32)
• Sergeant Jack Culley (21)
• Sergeant Harold Curson (23)
• Aircraftman 1st Class John Davies (20)

See all 108 who died on 5 August →

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