Duisburg

Date

4 December 1943

Target

Duisburg, Germany

Force dispatched

48 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

196 airmen in this archive died on 4 December 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.

• Warrant Officer Class II George Warburton Acorn (20)
• Flying Officer Alexander Gordon Addison (28)
• Flight Sergeant Stanley Ainsworth (21)
• Leading Aircraftman David Graham Alexander (23)
• Flying Officer Eric Austin Alliston (20)
• Pilot Officer James Anderson (30)
• Sergeant John Winton Anderson (30)
• Sergeant Norman Thomas Anderson (22)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Jack Argent (20)
• Pilot Officer Gerald Henry Armstrong (19)
• Pilot Officer Frederick John Baker (21)
• Sergeant Aubrey Herbert Bale
• Sergeant Fred Barratt
• Sergeant John Sydney Bates (20)
• Pilot Officer Clarence Herbert Bayram
• Sergeant Donald Jack Bealey (22)
• Flight Lieutenant George Belcher (31)
• Sergeant Donald William Blackman (30)
• Flying Officer Herbert Douglas Blair (33)
• Warrant Officer Class II William Robert King Boles (23)
• Pilot Officer Aubrey Fraser Bond (22)
• Sergeant Robert Arthur Boothman (22)
• Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Edouard Roch Boudreault (22)
• Flying Officer Ronald Sydney Bowden (30)

See all 196 who died on 4 December →

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