Essen

Date

26 June 1942

Target

Essen, Germany

Force dispatched

14 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

236 airmen in this archive died on 26 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 Hezekiah Abbott (27)
• Sergeant Jack Lacy Abson (23)
• Flight Sergeant Desire Ernest Charles Adams (22)
• Pilot Officer Ryland George Addis (31)
• Flight Sergeant John Drew Ailey (21)
• Sergeant Ronald Frank Ansell (21)
• Squadron Leader Matthew Richard Atkinson (26)
• Sergeant Ancil Chalmer Baker (25)
• Pilot Officer Leslie Percy Bales (25)
• Pilot Officer Brian Francis Ball (30)
• Sergeant Frederick George Barber (23)
• Sergeant Percy Warren Barrett (32)
• Flight Lieutenant Ralph Beesley
• Flight Sergeant Arthur Bell (20)
• Flight Sergeant Maurice Lloyd Berg (23)
• Sergeant Victor Jack Foch Bicat
• Pilot Officer Harry William Blackford (27)
• Sergeant Allan Neil Blackley (20)
• Pilot Officer Lewis Alfred Booth (33)
• Pilot Officer Richard Forrest Bradbury
• Sergeant Robert George Ashley Brathwaite (27)
• Sergeant Arthur Leslie Brooks
• Sergeant Eric Roy Brooks Clarke (24)
• Sergeant Peter Bryant

See all 236 who died on 26 June →

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