Duisburg

Date

8 December 1944

Target

Duisburg, Germany

Force dispatched

194 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

23 airmen in this archive died on 8 December 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.

• Flight Sergeant Reginald Joseph Bennett (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Murray Buchanan (29)
• Flying Officer Arthur Kenneth Cooper (19)
• Flight Sergeant Walter James Ellen (20)
• Warrant Officer Frank Herbert Hardman (28)
• Flight Sergeant Colin Arthur Lee Haslam (19)
• Flying Officer Arthur David Hone (24)
• Flying Officer Kenneth James Hovenden (23)
• Pupil Pilot Charles Howes
• Flight Lieutenant John Kirkpatrick (25)
• Pilot Officer Kevin Charles Loe (23)
• Flying Officer Horace Keith Lyle
• Pilot Officer James Joseph Alexander McFadyen (24)
• Flying Officer Mate Alexander Milich (23)
• Flight Sergeant Stanley James Moore (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Edward Francis Pontey (18)
• Pilot Officer Trevor Sutherland Powe (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Ronald Norman Rose (19)
• Pilot Officer Charles Frederick Smith
• Pilot Officer Robert Thomas Thompson (21)
• Corporal James Popple Warren (34)
• Leading Aircraftman Edward Gilbert Willett (26)
• Flight Lieutenant Donald John Wilson (23)

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