Duisburg

Date

29 January 1944

Target

Duisburg, Germany

Force dispatched

22 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

510 airmen in this archive died on 29 January 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 Thomas Henry Adams (23)
• Flying Officer Harold Raymond Adams (20)
• Sergeant Lawrence Sidney John Adkin (21)
• Pilot Officer Douglas Affleck (22)
• Flight Sergeant David Sydney Alexander (21)
• Pilot Officer James Alexander (24)
• Pilot Officer Robert Edward Allan
• Flight Sergeant Norman William Allen (23)
• Flying Officer Frank Allison
• Pilot Officer Joseph Emmanuel Alves (22)
• Pilot Officer Leslie Dean Anderson (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Robert William Anderson
• Pilot Officer Reginald Thomas Andrews (22)
• Pilot Officer Walter Harold Andrews
• Sergeant Eric Ernest Appleby (20)
• Sergeant Albert John Owen Archer (23)
• Sergeant George Armstrong (20)
• Flying Officer Albert Henry Ashford
• Sergeant Francis Alfred Aver (23)
• Sergeant Charles Ronald Bailey (24)
• Warrant Officer Class II Clifford Stanley Baker (23)
• Flight Sergeant George Arthur Baker (34)
• Flying Officer Herbert Allan Baker
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Richard Ball (30)

See all 510 who died on 29 January →

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