Essen

Date

10 March 1942

Target

Essen, Germany

Force dispatched

126 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

93 airmen in this archive died on 10 March 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.

• Pilot Officer William Henry Thomson Andrews (32)
• Pilot Officer William James Atkinson
• Sergeant John Edward Baartz (21)
• Pilot Officer Lloyd Wilson Bailey (22)
• Warrant Officer Robert John Barker (24)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Henry Belcher (36)
• Sergeant Albert George Bloomfield
• Flight Sergeant James Morley Broddy
• Sergeant Norman Francis Townshend Brown (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Sir Stephen John Bull (37)
• Air Pupil Calder (18)
• Sergeant Leslie James Caldwell (22)
• Sergeant Leslie George Chapman
• Pilot Officer Douglas Albert Edward Clarke (24)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Vernon Cockcroft (21)
• Squadron Leader Lloyd Watt Coleman (25)
• Flight Sergeant Royce Norval Coleman
• Pilot Officer Herbert Edwin Collier
• Flight Sergeant Norman Collins-campbell (24)
• Sergeant Colin Albert Cornwell (22)
• Corporal James Craig
• Sergeant Gwyn Barrington Daines
• Sergeant Thomas Francis Dale (28)
• Sergeant William Brett Davies (19)

See all 93 who died on 10 March →

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