Duisburg

Date

21 February 1945

Target

Duisburg, Germany

Force dispatched

349 aircraft

Aircraft lost

17

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

140 airmen in this archive died on 21 February 1945 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 Walter Absalom (23)
• Flight Sergeant Ernest Abner Amzalak
• Pilot Officer Nels Peter Helin Anderson (21)
• Flying Officer Peter Gordon Anderson (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Andersson (41)
• Flight Lieutenant Abel Baker (23)
• Wing Commander Maurice William L'Isle La Valette Baker (33)
• Wing Commander Reginald William Baker (29)
• Pilot Officer Harold Lester Ball (21)
• Flying Officer Albert John Beck (24)
• Flying Officer Laurence Allen Blaney (26)
• Flying Officer James Arthur Bleich (23)
• Flight Sergeant Bryant Braddock (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Philip Brown (28)
• Flying Officer Peter Harold Burne (21)
• Flying Officer Herbert Thomas Campbell (22)
• Pilot Officer Roy Campbell
• Flying Officer Bernard Maxwell Clegg (20)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Collie (34)
• Flying Officer Alfred Joseph Combaz (24)
• Flying Officer William Cowan (25)
• Sergeant Thomas Frank Creedy (24)
• Flying Officer George Elliott Creswell
• Flying Officer Henry Raymond Dart

See all 140 who died on 21 February →

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