Duisburg

Date

21 May 1944

Target

Duisburg, Germany

Force dispatched

32 aircraft

Aircraft lost

32

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

291 airmen in this archive died on 21 May 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.

• Flight Sergeant George Frederick Dugald Abayasekera (23)
• Warrant Officer Edmund James Kiely Ahern (26)
• Pilot Officer Arthur John Alcott (28)
• Flying Officer William Victor Amphlett
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Charles Andersen (28)
• Flight Sergeant Allan Andrew Anderson
• Flying Officer Kenneth Edgar Archay (23)
• Warrant Officer Frederick William Atherton (29)
• Flying Officer Roy Eric Ayre (23)
• Flying Officer Douglas Alfred Bacon
• Flight Lieutenant George Edward Bailey (29)
• Pilot Officer Ronald Walter Bailey (22)
• Sergeant Lionel Edward John Baily (21)
• Corporal Charles Gordon Baker (20)
• Flying Officer Frederick John Baker (38)
• Sergeant Robert Walter Ball (20)
• Pilot Officer Sigmund Bernard Bandur (28)
• Sergeant Joseph Barber
• Corporal Robert Meggison Barker (35)
• Pilot Officer William Baxter
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Wenzl Matthew Bayer (27)
• Sergeant Ernest Cecil Beacham (30)
• Flight Lieutenant David Patrick Murray Bell (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Maurice Joseph Berry (18)

See all 291 who died on 21 May →

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