Duisburg

Date

13 July 1942

Target

Duisburg, Germany

Force dispatched

194 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

122 airmen in this archive died on 13 July 1942 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 William Anthony George Atkins (19)
• Flight Sergeant James Edward Bacon (22)
• Flight Sergeant Sydney Leslie Beamont (26)
• Squadron Leader Lawrence George Belcham
• Flying Officer John Thomas Blease (24)
• Pilot Officer George Arnold Bonner (26)
• Pilot Officer Leslie Elmer Bradbury (21)
• Sergeant Peter Bray (21)
• Sergeant Russell Walter Brindley (27)
• Flight Sergeant Peter Ernest Bull (22)
• Flight Sergeant Walter William Burns
• Sergeant John William Calvert (31)
• Sergeant Norman Walter Sydney Cantell (20)
• Warrant Officer Class II Raymond Francis Casey (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Ebborn Ernest Caswell (29)
• Sergeant William John Chapman
• Aircraftman 1st Class Stanley Arthur Clark (35)
• Sergeant Christopher William Cooke (27)
• Pilot Officer Peter Cyprian Coulthard (19)
• Sergeant Charles Craft (21)
• Sergeant Lyndley Dawson Craven (30)
• Sergeant John Francis Crozier (25)
• Sergeant Albert Henry Thomas Davies
• Flying Officer Llewellyn Alfred Davies (33)

See all 122 who died on 13 July →

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