Düsseldorf

Date

1 November 1943

Target

Düsseldorf, Germany

Force dispatched

589 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

71 airmen in this archive died on 1 November 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.

• Sergeant Peter Phillip Bacon (22)
• Sergeant Cyril Barraclough (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Maxwell Beattie (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Ernest Frank Black (32)
• Flying Officer Clarence Elmer Brandt
• Sergeant Frederick Tom Brown (21)
• Flight Sergeant Hugh Ferguson Bryson (21)
• Pilot Officer Jean Louis De Gonzague Courteau (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Charles Edward Crockford (34)
• Flight Sergeant Stanley William Cross (24)
• Flying Officer Douglas Haig Disney (25)
• Flying Officer Ernest Angus Fielding (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Martin John Frusher Foley (19)
• Sergeant William Milo Charles Fuller (22)
• Sergeant George Harry Marriner Garner (22)
• Flight Sergeant Leslie John Garrow (21)
• Flight Sergeant Herbert William Gay (20)
• Flying Officer Kenneth George (30)
• Flight Sergeant Ernest Harold Gibbon (23)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Richard Goulty (19)
• Flight Sergeant William Joseph Hall (22)
• Second Lieutenant Frederick Ernest Hamm (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Walter Hecht
• Flying Officer Kenneth Hipwell (29)

See all 71 who died on 1 November →

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