Essen

Date

21 January 1943

Target

Essen, Germany

Force dispatched

70 aircraft

Aircraft lost

4

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

150 airmen in this archive died on 21 January 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 George Henry Anderson (20)
• Flying Officer Arthur Redvers Atkins (26)
• Warrant Officer William Evan Atkins
• Sergeant Donald Leslie Baker (25)
• Sergeant Herbert Francis Barber (22)
• Sergeant Alan Frederick Bates (19)
• Pilot Officer Herbert Eldon Beale (23)
• Pilot Officer Hugh Bernard Bell (21)
• Sergeant Norman Reginald Bennett
• Sergeant William Houston Bower (21)
• Flight Sergeant Frank Lawrence Boyd (22)
• Pilot Officer Eric Bradley (23)
• Sergeant Stanley Charles Brewer (22)
• Sergeant Basil Dewdney Bridge
• Leading Aircraftman Harry Brown (33)
• Sergeant John Henry Brown
• Warrant Officer Ralph Chaytor Brown (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Bruce Lyndon Buls (25)
• Pilot Officer Edgar Heaton Burgess (23)
• Sergeant Allan Campbell (22)
• Pilot Officer Walter Henry Cappleman (28)
• Flying Officer Brian Withers Carmichael (30)
• Sergeant John Carr (22)
• Flying Officer Lawrence Vernon Carrington (22)

See all 150 who died on 21 January →

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