Duisburg

Date

9 August 1943

Target

Duisburg, Germany

Force dispatched

16 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

150 airmen in this archive died on 9 August 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.

• Flying Officer Robert Peter Abbey (22)
• Flying Officer Sydney Charles Bertram Abbott (22)
• Pilot Officer Walter Waldron Adams (24)
• Sergeant Trevor Alexander Albrey (21)
• Corporal Keith Treffa Alexander
• Flying Officer Alfred Jack Allen (23)
• Warrant Officer Charles Allen (43)
• Flying Officer Joseph Cletus Allen (35)
• Sergeant Peter Baldwin (19)
• Sergeant Roland Walter Ballauff (21)
• Flying Officer Leslie Bays (32)
• Flight Sergeant Harry James Beake (23)
• Warrant Officer John Edward Biddle (18)
• Sergeant Douglas Allan Black
• Sergeant Arthur Patrick Bowker (23)
• Sergeant Joseph Allen Bright
• Pilot Officer Cyril Macdonald Brown (24)
• Sergeant Torrance Buchan (28)
• Sergeant William Henry Buffery
• Pilot Officer John Burdon (22)
• Pilot Officer John Hervey Carmichael
• Sergeant John Taylor Chadwick (21)
• Flying Officer Robert Eric Chapman (29)
• Sergeant Ronald Ellis Chapman (20)

See all 150 who died on 9 August →

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