Essen

Date

8 June 1942

Target

Essen, Germany

Force dispatched

170 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

154 airmen in this archive died on 8 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.

• Aircraftman 2nd Class George Alexander (36)
• Corporal Ernest Alton (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Roy Leo Aney (19)
• Leading Aircraftman David Harold Armitage (24)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Charles Addison Ash (21)
• Sergeant Tom Allan Auld (24)
• Sergeant Frederick William Ewart Ball
• Flying Officer Leslie George Barlow
• Sergeant Ernest Douglas Bayley (20)
• Sergeant Michael Henry Beaufoy (19)
• Sergeant Alan Bentham (22)
• Corporal Victor John Herbert Bilton (30)
• Flight Sergeant James Calvin Black (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Maurice Blum
• Sergeant Harold Bond (21)
• Sergeant Eric Foster William Booth
• Sergeant John Edward Bottomley (34)
• Leading Aircraftman Brooks (21)
• Sergeant Desmond McCooey Brown (21)
• Warrant Officer Jack Albert Budd (28)
• Sergeant Cecil James Bunn (22)
• Flight Sergeant William Carmichael (22)
• Sergeant John Thomas Carter (25)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Robert Manard Cattle

See all 154 who died on 8 June →

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