Duisburg

Date

19 November 1943

Target

Duisburg, Germany

Force dispatched

25 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

133 airmen in this archive died on 19 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.

• Flying Officer Roland Raymond Amey (20)
• Flying Officer James William Allen Armstrong (22)
• Sergeant Denis Reginald Bailey
• Flight Lieutenant Arthur Stephen Bancroft (24)
• Sergeant John Wentworth (jack) Barklam (21)
• Flight Sergeant Norman Barrett (22)
• Sergeant Eric Charles Beacock (24)
• Flight Sergeant Forbes Govan Benning (24)
• Flight Sergeant Donald Hepworth Bentley (22)
• Corporal Stanley Border (22)
• Sergeant Desmond Bumfrey (23)
• Flight Sergeant Bruce Goulden Burton (22)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Francis Joseph Byrnes (26)
• Flying Officer Garnet Oliver Carefoot
• Sergeant John Mackison Carruthers (19)
• Sergeant Emerson Earl Case (21)
• Sergeant Victor Horace Causeway
• Warrant Officer Anthony Thomas Charlwood (22)
• Sergeant Frank Alan Cheetham (22)
• Corporal Stanley Clegg (23)
• Flying Officer Francis Albert Collins (21)
• Sergeant Norman Percival Cook (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Sam Coote (30)
• Sergeant Robert William McGavin Cowan (22)

See all 133 who died on 19 November →

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