Essen

Date

16 June 1942

Target

Essen, Germany

Force dispatched

106 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

98 airmen in this archive died on 16 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 Arthur Franklin Alcock (22)
• Pilot Officer Charles Rae Barr (23)
• Pilot Officer Ross Biden (23)
• Captain Louis Cecil Botha (22)
• Sergeant Sidney Bradley (21)
• Sergeant Roland Percival Broadbridge (20)
• Sergeant George William Brown (21)
• Sergeant John William Brown (24)
• Sergeant Norman Watling Callister
• Flight Sergeant Douglas William Campbell
• Pilot Officer Colin Vivian Cantor (28)
• Lieutenant John Cathrine (23)
• Flight Sergeant David Conter
• Flight Sergeant Norman Edward Costigan (29)
• Flying Officer Harold Robert Irving Cox (26)
• Pilot Officer Gordon Robert Crawford (25)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald Ernest Ronnie Dabbs (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Michael Orme Davenport (22)
• Warrant Officer Class II William Robert Davies (24)
• Pilot Officer Frederick Ritchie Donnison (24)
• Pilot Officer Roy Arthur Drew (27)
• Aircraftman 1st Class William Frederick Dunbar (20)
• Sergeant Ian Duncan (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Charles Dean Junior Eaton (32)

See all 98 who died on 16 June →

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