Essen

Date

28 November 1943

Target

Essen, Germany

Force dispatched

10 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

335 airmen in this archive died on 28 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.

• Corporal Walter James Abbott (33)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Ebenezer Adamson (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Batty Alderson (24)
• Squadron Leader William Ezekiel Allison (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Eric William Andrews (23)
• Flying Officer Douglas James Arneil (19)
• Corporal Stanley Glendon Ashworth
• Leading Aircraftman Ingerson Keith Fey Badcock (31)
• Flying Officer Ronald Bailes (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Frederick William Ball (20)
• Leading Aircraftman George John William Barber
• Flight Sergeant Leonard Percival Barber (25)
• Corporal Maurice Alfred Albert Beatty (23)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class William Bell (33)
• Sergeant Geoffrey Albert Bennett
• Warrant Officer Claude Henry Bere (32)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Stanley Biss
• Aircraftman 2nd Class David Blackwood (26)
• Leading Aircraftman Alfred George Blakely (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Ivanhoe Frederick Bonner (24)
• Corporal Ben Boulton (30)
• Sergeant John Evan Bowen (32)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Phil Bracegirdle (31)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph Eric Brant

See all 335 who died on 28 November →

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