Duisburg

Date

6 August 1942

Target

Duisburg, Germany

Force dispatched

216 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

126 airmen in this archive died on 6 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)
• Pilot Officer Robert Keith Anderson Andrew (25)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class William Harry Angel (20)
• Warrant Officer Class II Allen Leland Bachelder (23)
• Sergeant Leslie William Arthur Barnard (21)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Wilson Baxter (24)
• Warrant Officer Jean Beaupre
• Sergeant Raymond Bell-berry (22)
• Sergeant Kenneth Bickmore (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Bottoms (20)
• Sergeant Philip Cecil John Brain
• Pilot Officer Geoffrey Michael Brearley (20)
• Flight Sergeant John Brooks (29)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick Charles Brown (40)
• Flight Sergeant Harold Alexander Brown (21)
• Sergeant Gerard Joseph Michael Cantwell
• Pilot Officer Eric Arthur Cassidy (27)
• Sergeant George Clayton Cavanagh (20)
• Sergeant Ronald Frederick Churchill (22)
• Sergeant John William Clarke (29)
• Aircraftman 1st Class William Henry Montague Cole
• Sergeant William John Cole (28)
• Sergeant James Colville (24)
• Sergeant Bertie Harry Cosby (20)

See all 126 who died on 6 August →

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