Essen

Date

28 August 1944

Target

Essen, Germany

Force dispatched

19 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

39 airmen in this archive died on 28 August 1944 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.

• Lieutenant Alexander (23)
• Flying Officer Louis Walter Allan Bauer (29)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Lawrence Bayly (20)
• Flying Officer George Richard Bradley
• Flight Sergeant Peter Giblin Caddy (20)
• Flying Officer Frank Rene Malyon Cook (21)
• Warrant Officer Class I Creux
• Flight Lieutenant Charles Edmond Darby
• Leading Aircraftman Loyd Anson Gray Dunbar (31)
• Squadron Leader Allan Leonard Farrington (29)
• Flying Officer George Johnston Geggie (22)
• Corporal Laurence Harnett
• Flight Sergeant John Dennis Jarvis (21)
• Flight Sergeant Jack Muir Knight (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class George Ernest Latham (21)
• Flight Sergeant Albert Macfarlane (21)
• Corporal Norman Richard Morris (24)
• Captain John Frederick Munro (31)
• Lieutenant Stanley Parr (27)
• Warrant Officer John Norman Philpott (24)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Gardhum Pickering
• Warrant Officer Victor William Arthur Pivott (23)
• Flying Officer Albert Wesley Ross (23)
• Pilot Officer Henry Silverwood (24)

See all 39 who died on 28 August →

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