Duisburg

Date

27 March 1944

Target

Duisburg, Germany

Force dispatched

14 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

90 airmen in this archive died on 27 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.

• Sergeant Thomas Arnold (21)
• Flying Officer Robert Leonard Baughan (21)
• Sergeant Mervin Lee Berthelsen (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Charles Boyden (36)
• Flight Sergeant Eric Clive Brewer (23)
• Flying Officer Norman Brocklehurst (22)
• Flying Officer Arthur Calvert (23)
• Flight Sergeant Royston Arthur Capel
• Flight Sergeant Leonard Arthur Chapman (22)
• Pilot Officer John Clark
• Flight Sergeant Albert Clarke
• Sergeant Dennis Owen Cottrell (19)
• Flying Officer Russell Murray Coutts (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Frank Harold Cox (38)
• Sergeant Clifford Charles Crawley (20)
• Flight Sergeant Goerge Owen Crichton (20)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class John Charles Crisp (34)
• Warrant Officer Thomas Davison (23)
• Flight Sergeant Bernard Henry Dorn (34)
• Leading Aircraftman George Alfred Doughty
• Flight Sergeant Eric Kenneth Ferguson (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Keith Alexander Fitton (27)
• Sergeant Ronald Mark Fox (27)
• Flight Sergeant Raymond Charles Foyle (22)

See all 90 who died on 27 March →

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