Düsseldorf

Date

2 November 1944

Target

Düsseldorf, Germany

Force dispatched

992 aircraft

Aircraft lost

8

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

89 airmen in this archive died on 2 November 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.

• Flying Officer Bruce Benjamin Anderson (27)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Ferdinand Jacques Bachant
• Lieutenant James Errol Begbie (26)
• Pilot Officer Jack Binstead (25)
• Flying Officer William Selby Pace Bonar (23)
• Lieutenant Ernest Borland (22)
• Leading Aircraftman David Graham Smith Boulton (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Bernard Vincent Brown (40)
• Pilot Officer Clifden Homer Foch Campton
• Flight Sergeant Irving Fairfax Carlsen (32)
• Warrant Officer James Nelson Casey (21)
• Pilot Officer Albert Jean William Cayer
• Sergeant Stanley George Claughton (20)
• Flying Officer Walter Sidney Cowan (26)
• Flight Sergeant David William Davidson (32)
• Leading Aircraftman Dudley John Dingle (18)
• Pilot Officer Matthew Dorrell (21)
• Sergeant Lawrence Edgar Eddie (28)
• Sergeant Richard Elmer Fahselt (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class John Basil Finlay (24)
• Warrant Officer Geoffrey Gear (21)
• Flying Officer Vernon Beverley Gilson (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Harry Goddard
• Pilot Officer Jack Douglas Griffin (20)

See all 89 who died on 2 November →

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