Düsseldorf

Date

23 February 1944

Target

Düsseldorf, Germany

Force dispatched

17 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

198 airmen in this archive died on 23 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.

• Sergeant Frederick James Abery (34)
• Flight Sergeant Robert William Airey (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Edward Allitt
• Warrant Officer Class II George Albert Andrews (21)
• Flight Sergeant Leslie Noel Atkinson (29)
• Flying Officer Eugene Herman Barbet (23)
• Flying Officer Robert Barr (24)
• Flight Sergeant Percival Valentine Bashford (24)
• Warrant Officer Thomas Atkinson Beatey (28)
• Sergeant William Scott Beevers (18)
• Warrant Officer Class I Earl Theodore Bell (29)
• Sergeant William Henry Bell (23)
• Flight Sergeant Frank Robertshaw Bennett (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Harry Bennett (40)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Bewsher (20)
• Sergeant Harold Elliott Blackett (23)
• Flying Officer John Dawson Blencowe (29)
• Flight Sergeant Francis Gerald Durrant Bloom (22)
• Sergeant Cyril Bolder (21)
• Sergeant Bobbie Bolt
• Flying Officer Idris Edward Bolton
• Aircraftman 1st Class John William Boon (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Lindsay William Chalmers Bowman (23)
• Sergeant Trevor Barkley Boyd (22)

See all 198 who died on 23 February →

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