Düsseldorf

Date

6 February 1943

Target

Düsseldorf, Germany

Force dispatched

54 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

131 airmen in this archive died on 6 February 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.

• Sergeant Charles Frederick Abraham (29)
• Sergeant Francis John Allen (19)
• Sergeant Kenneth Henry Austin (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Edwin James Badkin (26)
• Sergeant Ronald Valentine Baker (21)
• Sergeant Ronald John Barkham (20)
• Flight Sergeant Stanley Baxter (28)
• Flying Officer Peter Leslie Beesley (23)
• Sergeant Eugene Joseph Patrick Bergna (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Jean Thomas Berube (22)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Charles Bitten
• Sergeant Roy Benjamin Charles Bloom (33)
• Flight Sergeant Alfred Ernest Booth (29)
• Sergeant Kenneth Bowley
• Sergeant Douglas Matthew Brackenridge (21)
• Flying Officer Hope Braine (28)
• Sergeant Eric Brindle (23)
• Sergeant Leslie Atkinson Brown (21)
• Sergeant Alfred Brian Burgess (19)
• Sergeant Leonard Bygrave (21)
• Pilot Officer Albert Carr (19)
• Sergeant Frederick George Carr (24)
• Sergeant James Frederick Christon (21)
• Warrant Officer Class I James Haldane Clark

See all 131 who died on 6 February →

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