Düsseldorf

Date

29 July 1943

Target

Düsseldorf, Germany

Force dispatched

19 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

264 airmen in this archive died on 29 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.

• Pilot Officer Ernest Frank Allwright (22)
• Flying Officer Charles Beatty Anderson (27)
• Flying Officer David James Anderson (33)
• Flying Officer Liston Anderson (32)
• Squadron Leader Charles Frederick Andrew
• Flight Sergeant Wallace Gale Arlidge (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Sydney Arnold (21)
• Sergeant Denis James Audley
• Flying Officer Ralph Cameron Baillie
• Warrant Officer Class II William Balduff (26)
• Sergeant Frederick Ball (22)
• Flying Officer Ronald George Ballantine (22)
• Flying Officer Joseph Wallace Bancroft (22)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class James Hector Banks
• Sergeant Dennis Barker (22)
• Sergeant Ernest Thomas Barry (22)
• Flight Sergeant David Henderson Bates
• Sergeant Donald John Beesley (20)
• Sergeant Ernest Bell (21)
• Flying Officer John Bennett (27)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Edward Bent (21)
• Pilot Officer Colin Muir Binnie (21)
• Flying Officer Eric Gordon Birkbeck (23)
• Warrant Officer Class II Albert Lloyd Bjarnason (22)

See all 264 who died on 29 July →

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