Düsseldorf

Date

13 December 1943

Target

Düsseldorf, 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

50 airmen in this archive died on 13 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.

• Pilot Officer Royston Charles Keith Anderson (23)
• Sergeant Raymond Beker (19)
• Pilot Officer Carol Herbert Brown (24)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Burrowes (20)
• Flying Officer Colin Hamilton Campbell (27)
• Corporal Geoffrey Russell Cary (27)
• Flying Officer Donald Marsden Coates (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Laurence Snowden Collins (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Walter John Cox (23)
• Warrant Officer Christopher William Crawley (21)
• Pilot Officer Allan Marshall Curry (26)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Henry McKenzie Daniell (21)
• Flight Sergeant Arthur John Davies (30)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Denis Dennehy (22)
• Warrant Officer Robert Roy Donaldson (30)
• Leading Aircraftman John Henry Donovan (31)
• Flight Sergeant Murray Fairbairn (25)
• Leading Aircraftman William Nelson Galloway (21)
• Flying Officer Lynden Kingsley Gordon-white
• Flight Sergeant George Frederick Handel (23)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class James Jackson (22)
• Flying Officer Wilfred Jackson (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Albert Edward James (25)
• Sergeant Harry Roy Jefferies (22)

See all 50 who died on 13 December →

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