Duisburg

Date

20 December 1942

Target

Duisburg, Germany

Force dispatched

232 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

228 airmen in this archive died on 20 December 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 Arthur Leslie Abraham (22)
• Sergeant William Edward Adams
• Sergeant Eric Airey (23)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Gregor Williamson Aitken (23)
• Flying Officer Douglas Anderson (24)
• Sergeant George Stewart Anderson (22)
• Pilot Officer James Lloyd Armitage (33)
• Flight Lieutenant Douglas Goad Astington (33)
• Sergeant Jack Hilton Baker
• Sergeant Roy Henry Bambury (19)
• Flying Officer Douglas Robert Bannerman (30)
• Sergeant Sydney Roy Barling (26)
• Sergeant Harold Bate (34)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Clifford Bee (21)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Bennett (34)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Bentham (22)
• Sergeant Gordon Joseph Bentley (21)
• Flying Officer Denzil Francis Heriz Biggane (24)
• Sergeant Roy Arthur Frank Bignell (19)
• Sergeant James Milne Monro Billing (28)
• Sergeant Harry Bispham (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Eugene Bohush (20)
• Flying Officer Ronald Alfred Bowles (22)
• Pilot Officer Harry Thomas Boyes (24)

See all 228 who died on 20 December →

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