Düsseldorf
28 February 1944 — Düsseldorf
- Date
- 28 February 1944
- Target
- Düsseldorf, Germany
- Force dispatched
- 15 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
68 airmen in this archive died on 28 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 Allan Edward Arnold (25)
- Pilot Officer Robert Allan Batty (29)
- Sergeant Desmond Riversdale Anthony Burgess (19)
- Sergeant George Henry Burke (20)
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Robert Burn (23)
- Sergeant John Allan Campbell (21)
- Sergeant Stanley William Chalcraft (20)
- Flying Officer Bernard Clifton (23)
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Maxwell Crouch (20)
- Sergeant Ronald Everett Cunnings (29)
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Charles John Curley (23)
- Pilot Officer Patrick Sidney William Daniel (22)
- Pilot Officer Michael Ludlow Davis (19)
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Dickson Dickie (36)
- Leading Aircraftman Andrew Clark Doherty (36)
- Flying Officer Albert Beauvais Donohoe (22)
- Corporal Angus Samuel Doylend (27)
- Flying Officer John Burgess Eaton (30)
- Sergeant Philip Henry Edwards (21)
- Flight Sergeant George Flynn (44)
- Flying Officer Joseph Pierre Cyrille Gervais (26)
- Aircraftman 2nd Class David John Gibb
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alexander McDonald (sonny) Gow (20)
- Wing Commander Reginald Joseph Cowan Grant (29)
See all 68 who died on 28 February →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →