Duisburg

Date

21 July 1942

Target

Duisburg, Germany

Force dispatched

291 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

129 airmen in this archive died on 21 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 Arthur Adams (36)
• Sergeant Thomas George Richard Allaway (21)
• Sergeant John Lionel Anderson (25)
• Pilot Officer Thomas Reginald Ashton
• Sergeant Roy Donald Bailey (20)
• Pilot Officer John Satterthwaite Barrow
• Aircraftman 1st Class George Joseph Bartschi (24)
• Sergeant Samuel Beaumont (22)
• Sergeant David Berger (25)
• Sergeant Alfred Maurice (bob) Blyth (20)
• Warrant Officer Class II George Vincent Cyril Booth (20)
• Flight Sergeant William Elliott Brown (20)
• Sergeant Brian Joseph Burdon-murphy (27)
• Flight Sergeant Albert Alexander Carcary
• Pilot Officer Walter Beattie Carlyle (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Leonard Alfred Carter (21)
• Flight Sergeant Maurice James Colclough (32)
• Sergeant Raymond Collier (21)
• Sergeant Connon (22)
• Pilot Officer Warren Frank Cowan (31)
• Warrant Officer Class II William Warren Craig (29)
• Sergeant Mervyn Davies
• Sergeant Norman Wilfred Dawkins (20)
• Corporal Arthur John Doherty (30)

See all 129 who died on 21 July →

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