Essen

Date

7 November 1943

Target

Essen, Germany

Force dispatched

35 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

97 airmen in this archive died on 7 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.

• Warrant Officer Class II John Ashwood (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Theodore Frederick Bamkin (36)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Herbert Beach (19)
• Warrant Officer Class II Carl Martin Berg (23)
• Flying Officer Frederick Avery Beyer (20)
• Lieutenant Bird (20)
• Sergeant Edgar William Camp (21)
• Lieutenant Campbell (31)
• Lieutenant Campbell (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Henry John Canard (25)
• Flight Sergeant Denis Frank Carter (24)
• Sergeant Robert Mair Clark (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth Clarkson (19)
• Flying Officer William Clarkson (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Charles Ewart Conroy (30)
• Flying Officer Malcolm John Coombe (23)
• Warrant Officer Class II John Harrison Cowieson
• Flying Officer James Orville Cross (27)
• Flight Sergeant Jack Elsby (29)
• Warrant Officer Class I Mandel Max Epstein
• Lieutenant Alexander Fell (29)
• Sergeant Albert Follett (20)
• Flight Sergeant Anthony Joseph Gallagher (20)
• Warrant Officer Class I Norman William Gardner (22)

See all 97 who died on 7 November →

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