Essen

Date

19 July 1942

Target

Essen, Germany

Force dispatched

14 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

110 airmen in this archive died on 19 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 Reginald Connell Allan (23)
• Pilot Officer Francis Desmond Alston (31)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Leonard Hillman Alway (37)
• Flight Sergeant George Stanley Anderson
• Sergeant Cresswell Atchison (21)
• Sergeant Rupert Theodore Bannister (30)
• Sergeant Albert John Beattie (24)
• Sergeant Andrew McAlpine Begg (22)
• Warrant Officer Class I Wesley Leonard Belous
• Pilot Officer Ronald Jeffrey Bennett (24)
• Sergeant Frederick George Albert Bick
• Sergeant Richard Ivor Bowen (21)
• Sergeant Norman Edmund Brace (21)
• Sergeant Keith James Bradley (25)
• Sergeant William Joseph Brazier (28)
• Sergeant Colin McDonald Broadfoot (26)
• Sergeant Roland Henry Burley (32)
• Sergeant William Desmond Cheese (21)
• Pilot Officer Peter Puleston Clarke (21)
• Sergeant William Harry Condon (22)
• Sergeant Maurice Cooke (20)
• Pilot Officer Henry Cumberland Stapleton Cotton (22)
• Pilot Officer James Eric Covell (21)
• Pilot Officer Arthur Colin Crofton

See all 110 who died on 19 July →

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