Duisburg

Date

21 February 1944

Target

Duisburg, Germany

Force dispatched

41 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

184 airmen in this archive died on 21 February 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 Robert William Ackerman (21)
• Sergeant Terence Clifton Akeroyd
• Aircraftman 1st Class David Anderson (22)
• Flight Sergeant Sidney Bulcraig Appleton (23)
• Flying Officer Thomas Ralston Atkinson (21)
• Pilot Officer John Humphreys Baird (29)
• Flying Officer Harry Baker (21)
• Lieutenant Barbour (29)
• Warrant Officer Gordon Ross Barker (21)
• Pilot Officer John Arthur Bartholomew (22)
• Sergeant Christopher Richard Batchelor (21)
• Sergeant Charles Selwood Bibb
• Sergeant Reginald William Bodsworth (29)
• Flight Sergeant George Charles Brasington (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Charles Ellis Brayshaw (22)
• Sergeant Albert Leonard Brittain (22)
• Flight Sergeant James Roy Bryant (22)
• Sergeant Basil Harold Burson (20)
• Flight Sergeant James John Campbell (21)
• Sergeant Alfred Austin Carless (19)
• Pilot Officer William John Chambers (23)
• Sergeant Albert Chappell (19)
• Flying Officer Sydney Hatfield Cheeseman (21)
• Pilot Officer Norman Frank Cherry (21)

See all 184 who died on 21 February →

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