Duisburg

Date

23 July 1942

Target

Duisburg, Germany

Force dispatched

215 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

156 airmen in this archive died on 23 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 Norman Acton
• Pilot Officer Robert Baker Albright (26)
• Sergeant Jack Cedric Aldred (26)
• Second Lieutenant Allen (27)
• Pilot Officer Frank Edgar Anderson
• Sergeant Maxwell Warnock Apperson (24)
• Flight Sergeant John Campbell Atkinson
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Dennis Edgar Barton Attwool (22)
• Sergeant Harvey John Austin
• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Phillip Arthur Bail (20)
• Leading Aircraftman William Eric Barker (21)
• Sergeant Albert Edwin Barrows (22)
• Pilot Officer Peter Henry Basson (28)
• Air Sergeant Bayley (29)
• Pilot Officer Richard Colvin Seddon Beck (30)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Cyril Percival Bird
• Pilot Officer William Smith Blackadder (21)
• Sergeant Sidney Frederick Ogeley Blackmore (30)
• Pilot Officer James Stanley Bladon (23)
• Flight Sergeant Timothy Clayton Blair (33)
• Sergeant George Blatherwick (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald John Bonds (21)
• Sergeant Eric Harold Boumphrey (22)
• Flying Officer Anthony John Lee Bowes (28)

See all 156 who died on 23 July →

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