Essen

Date

25 March 1942

Target

Essen, Germany

Force dispatched

254 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

184 airmen in this archive died on 25 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.

• Sergeant John Henry Addis (26)
• Sergeant Edmund Roy Baggott (20)
• Sergeant Albert Wallace Baker (21)
• Sergeant Victor Charles Rudkin Baker (19)
• Flight Sergeant Donald Leslie Ballingall (20)
• Sergeant Ronald Harry Joseph Barrie (21)
• Sergeant Joseph Davidson Beattie (21)
• Sergeant John Samuel Beauchamp (22)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Max Albert Beetz (21)
• Sergeant Edward Leslie Belk (20)
• Sergeant Ronald Henry Bester (19)
• Sergeant Edward John Biddulph (20)
• Sergeant Samuel Block (33)
• Sergeant Stanley Charles George Blowes (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Hanoch Blumenkranz
• Sergeant William James Thomas Bogg (27)
• Sergeant David Watson Bond
• Sergeant Norman George Wood Boyce
• Flying Officer Trevor Ernest Brammall (23)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Edmund Bray (21)
• Sergeant Donald Charles Brockley
• Leading Aircraftman Anthony Carr Harle Brown (24)
• Pilot Officer Alastair William Buchan (20)
• Sergeant Jack Buckley (22)

See all 184 who died on 25 March →

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