The Ruhr
23 October 1942 — The Ruhr
- Date
- 23 October 1942
- Target
- The Ruhr
- Force dispatched
- 11 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
143 airmen in this archive died on 23 October 1942 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 Frank Adey (21)
- Sergeant Frederick George Allen (30)
- Wing Commander Horace Roy Allen (33)
- Sergeant Alfred Anderson (27)
- Sergeant Derek Dundonald Audley (21)
- Flight Sergeant Leonard John Bailey
- Pilot Officer William Bain (28)
- Sergeant Leonard Joseph Barnard
- Warrant Officer Class II Wilbert Francis Bauer (22)
- Leading Aircraftman Frank James Beairsto (24)
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Philippe Bedard (26)
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Bednal (28)
- Sergeant Lionel Horace Bell (23)
- Sergeant William Bell (24)
- Sergeant John Rutledge Bertram (20)
- Sergeant John Beveridge (21)
- Lieutenant Percival Henry Bingham
- Flight Sergeant Norman Birch (28)
- Sergeant Arthur Bird (24)
- Sergeant Reginald Alfred Blake (27)
- Sergeant Douglas Joseph Bowden (22)
- Warrant Officer Oswald Robert Bowerman (26)
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Layton Bowker (31)
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Paul Albert Boyer (22)
See all 143 who died on 23 October →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →