Duisburg

Date

25 July 1942

Target

Duisburg, Germany

Force dispatched

313 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

179 airmen in this archive died on 25 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.

• Pilot Officer Eric George Henry Allen (31)
• Sergeant William Arthur Allsopp (24)
• Flying Officer Donald Arthur Anderson (25)
• Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Appleyard (20)
• Flight Sergeant John Stanley George Arundel (21)
• Sergeant Donald Bagley (21)
• Sergeant Garnet James Bailey (22)
• Flying Officer Herbert Boyd Barber (24)
• Sergeant Oswald Barraclough (23)
• Pilot Officer Colin William Bidwell Barton (25)
• Sergeant Robert Lovie Beaddie (23)
• Flight Sergeant Richard Denison Beeston (33)
• Sergeant Wilson Patterson Begley (20)
• Flying Officer Jack Edward Sedgwick Bentley (28)
• Sergeant Aubrey Archdale Bice (25)
• Sergeant Guy Andre Rene Bissonnette
• Flight Sergeant Leonard Blashill
• Sergeant Cyril Wellesley Bourke
• Sergeant Alwyne Robert Bowen (21)
• Sergeant Ernest Bradley (21)
• Sergeant Robert Hugh Brash (32)
• Sergeant James Vincent Brett (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Ephraim Hugh Brown (24)
• Pilot Officer Haddo Eric Von Bruce (31)

See all 179 who died on 25 July →

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