Duisburg

Date

8 July 1943

Command

Bomber Command

Target

Duisburg, Germany

Force dispatched

46 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

173 airmen in this archive died on 8 July 1943 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 Edward William John (eddy) Amor (28)
• Pilot Officer William Storey Ashworth
• Sergeant Wilfred Bailey (21)
• Flight Sergeant Alexander William Baines (21)
• Pilot Officer Charles Grindle Baker (28)
• Leading Aircraftman James Gordon Barr (23)
• Sergeant John Gerald Barrett (31)
• Flight Sergeant Martin Barrett (19)
• Sergeant Ronald Charles Barrett (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Patrick Henry Bell (26)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Lawrence R. Beresford (30)
• Flight Sergeant Leslie Lawton Bernthal (22)
• Flying Officer Anthony Kent Biggs (20)
• Sergeant Edgar Richard Black (22)
• Flying Officer Benedikt Blatny
• Flight Sergeant Enos Frederick Bramley
• Flight Sergeant Arthur George Bristow (23)
• Leading Aircraftman George Mellis Leiper Brown
• Flight Sergeant James Reginald Calder (21)
• Sergeant Douglas Cameron
• Flight Sergeant Carbarns
• Corporal Edward Adlington Chamberlain (30)
• Flying Officer Geoffrey Chambers (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Alfred Charles Channon (21)

See all 173 who died on 8 July →

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