Düsseldorf

Date

14 March 1944

Target

Düsseldorf, Germany

Force dispatched

32 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

227 airmen in this archive died on 14 March 1944 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 Frederick William John Adams (32)
• Sergeant Douglas Clayhurst Adamson (20)
• Pilot Officer Mervyn Adder (21)
• Sergeant Norman Sinclair Allan
• Sergeant John Neville Andrew (22)
• Flight Sergeant Phillip Heriot Armstrong
• Flight Sergeant Cecil Glen Arthur (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Hugh Asken (47)
• Air Pupil Jack H. Baker
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Henry Baker (38)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Herbert Ball (23)
• Pilot Officer Lloyd Roger Barker (22)
• Sergeant Reginald Dennis Barlow
• Sergeant Roy Stanley Barratt (19)
• Pilot Officer Archibald Macarthur Barrowman
• Wing Commander Donald Scrimgeour Bateman (39)
• Pupil Pilot Arthur Bates (19)
• Flight Sergeant John Hardie Bell (20)
• Flight Sergeant James Macadam Benzie (20)
• Flying Officer John Raynor Berrington
• Flight Sergeant Eric Alfred Birrell (21)
• Sergeant Sidney Thomas Bishop (22)
• Flying Officer Leonard Alvin Bland
• Sergeant William Blumire (20)

See all 227 who died on 14 March →

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