Essen

Date

10 March 1943

Target

Essen, Germany

Force dispatched

39 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

158 airmen in this archive died on 10 March 1943 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.

• Flying Officer Kenneth Alexander Adam (31)
• Sergeant Thomas Watson Agnew (20)
• Flight Sergeant Alexander Patterson Morris Aitken (20)
• Sergeant George Allen (22)
• Sergeant Leslie Edward Ashdown (27)
• Squadron Leader Derrick Maxwell Barker (27)
• Sergeant Leopold Edgar Bastian (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Neville Thomas George Beacham (27)
• Sergeant Benjamin Harvey Bishop (23)
• Sergeant Gordon Ronald Black
• Sergeant Alfred Norman Boreham (32)
• Pilot Officer Lawrence Mattinson Bridger (22)
• Sergeant Herbert Brock (28)
• Leading Aircraftman Frank Lloyd Brooker (27)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Victor Brown (22)
• Sergeant Victor Brown
• Sergeant William Browning (31)
• Flying Officer David Alistair Bruce (29)
• Leading Aircraftman Donald Victor Bullen (21)
• Sergeant William Bullen (23)
• Sergeant William Charles Burgess (22)
• Pilot Officer Andrew Seton Campbell (20)
• Flying Officer Robert Henry Carr (22)
• Flying Officer David I'Anson Cartwright (19)

See all 158 who died on 10 March →

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