Essen

Date

20 March 1942

Target

Essen, Germany

Force dispatched

11 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

56 airmen in this archive died on 20 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.

• Leading Aircraftman Thomas Allen (23)
• Corporal Richard Arthur Ashfield (31)
• Leading Aircraftman John Joseph Ayres (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Cecil Harman Baker (26)
• Pilot Officer Paul Leedham Bantock (21)
• Sergeant Victor Baxter (32)
• Air Sergeant Bender
• Leading Aircraftman George William Bond (33)
• Flying Officer John Charles Mortimer Booth
• Pilot Officer James Carey Boyers (23)
• Sergeant Norman Arthur Branchflower (20)
• Pilot Officer Jack Vivian Brittain (20)
• Sergeant Walter Bramley Cattrall (28)
• Pilot Officer Malcolm Stuart Davidson (22)
• Warrant Officer Neale Eustace Evans (27)
• Flight Sergeant Sidney Albert Gardiner (29)
• Second Lieutenant Charles Henry Gielink (23)
• Flying Officer James Joseph Guerin (28)
• Pilot Officer William Cardy Hollis Hallett (21)
• Sergeant Gerald Clifford Hunkin
• Air Sergeant Edward Jardine (56)
• Sergeant Eric William Jordan (19)
• Sergeant Oswald Herbert Leggett (20)
• Pilot Officer Douglas Cecil Leggo

See all 56 who died on 20 March →

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