Düsseldorf

Date

15 August 1942

Target

Düsseldorf, Germany

Force dispatched

131 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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

80 airmen in this archive died on 15 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 Thomas Barker (29)
• Sergeant William George Bate (29)
• Lieutenant Boyd (24)
• Flight Sergeant John Lawrence Douglas Brophy (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Frank Brown
• Flying Officer George Hector Burkett (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Harold M. Butler (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Philip Gordon Cameron (23)
• Flight Lieutenant John Sommerville Cardell
• Flight Sergeant Herbert Alfred Chislett (23)
• Sergeant Leslie Albert Clark
• Flying Officer John Edward Coates (30)
• Sergeant Stanley Coates (22)
• Flight Sergeant James Daniel O'Leary Cooney
• Air Mechanic Cornwall
• Sergeant Alexander Milne Craig (22)
• Flight Sergeant James Warren Cullen (21)
• Sergeant John Anthony Dent (27)
• Sergeant John Dundas Dickie (20)
• Flying Officer Geoffrey William Downe (25)
• Sergeant Patrick John Ellis (34)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Oswald Emery (19)
• Sergeant William Henry Fardoe (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Sidney Richard Fenn (20)

See all 80 who died on 15 August →

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