Gelsenkirchen

Date

9 July 1943

Target

Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Force dispatched

418 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

189 airmen in this archive died on 9 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.

• Flight Sergeant Geoffrey William Addinsall (20)
• Flight Sergeant Richard Alderton (20)
• Squadron Leader Harry Maurice Allen (38)
• Sergeant Edward William John (eddy) Amor (28)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class John McLellan Armstrong
• Pilot Officer William Storey Ashworth
• Sergeant Wilfred Bailey (21)
• Flight Sergeant Alexander William Baines (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Charles Edward Bake (20)
• Sergeant Leonard Anthony Baker (22)
• Sergeant Arthur Baldwin (21)
• Pilot Officer William Leonard Ball (22)
• Sergeant John Gerald Barrett (31)
• Flight Sergeant Martin Barrett (19)
• Sergeant Ronald Charles Barrett (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Patrick Henry Bell (26)
• Flying Officer Anthony Kent Biggs (20)
• Flying Officer Joseph Francois Xavier Jean Bittner (24)
• Flying Officer Geoffrey Boyd Blunn
• Squadron Leader Frederick Harold Bowden
• Flight Sergeant Enos Frederick Bramley
• Flying Officer John Joseph Brennan (25)
• Flight Sergeant Arthur George Bristow (23)
• Sergeant William Robert Bryans (21)

See all 189 who died on 9 July →

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