Essen

Date

5 June 1942

Target

Essen, Germany

Force dispatched

180 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

165 airmen in this archive died on 5 June 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.

• Sergeant Robert James Andrew (21)
• Sergeant James William Ashby (29)
• Pilot Officer Alan William Asmuss (21)
• Sergeant Edwin Alfred Bailey (20)
• Pilot Officer Norman Russell Bailey (23)
• Flight Sergeant Fredrick Cecil Banks (20)
• Flight Sergeant William James Barnes (21)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Thomas Barr (27)
• Sergeant Claude Stanley Bassett (22)
• Flying Officer Harold Ernest Bedford (31)
• Sergeant Raymond William Bevand
• Sergeant John Alfred Bloomfield (27)
• Sergeant Gilbert Frederick Cummings Bonner (24)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Leonard Bradshaw (22)
• Pilot Officer Richard Henry Broadley (20)
• Squadron Leader John North Hewlett Brooke (45)
• Corporal William David Bryant (32)
• Sergeant Kenneth Buchanan (21)
• Sergeant Robert Burges (22)
• Sergeant Harold Reuben Camfield
• Squadron Leader John Champion Carver (26)
• Sergeant Guy Hesketh Chamberlin (33)
• Flight Sergeant Roderick James Chisholm (21)
• Sergeant Tom Barnett Clark (19)

See all 165 who died on 5 June →

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