Düsseldorf

Date

31 July 1942

Target

Düsseldorf, Germany

Force dispatched

630 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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

226 airmen in this archive died on 31 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.

• Flight Sergeant Harold Abbott (22)
• Pilot Officer Mitchell George Abey (26)
• Pilot Officer Frank Edward Allen (27)
• Pilot Officer John Allen
• Sergeant Edward Allison Anderson (25)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Sidney Charles Andrews (20)
• Sergeant Brian Robert Anstee (19)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas James Armstrong (24)
• Pilot Officer Robert Peter Atkins (20)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Denis Backhouse (32)
• Sergeant William John Bagley (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Kenneth John Barltrop (19)
• Pilot Officer Thomas Barrett
• Flying Officer Christopher Edward Thomas Bartram (28)
• Flight Sergeant Leonard Battersby (27)
• Sergeant David Bell (20)
• Sergeant Clive Thomas Bingham (23)
• Flight Sergeant George Taylor Bloomer
• Flight Sergeant Mandel Bloomfield (21)
• Sergeant William Bluck (23)
• Flying Officer William Dennis Bohl (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Arthur Bolton (20)
• Sergeant Francis Charles Bond (22)
• Sergeant Bertram Stanley Braybrook (22)

See all 226 who died on 31 July →

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