ESSEN
{{webimage,wardiaries.jpg,float:right;width:150px;,Book no longer in print}}170 aircraft - 92 Wellingtons, 42 Halifaxes, 14 Stirlings, 13 Lancasters, 9 Hampdens.
19 aircraft - 7 Wellingtons, 7 Halifaxes, 3 Lancasters, 1 Hampden, 1 Stirling - lost.
Yet again, this target was not identified accurately and bombing was scattered over a wide ares. Essen suffered further light housing damage, 13 people killed and 42 injured.
Minor operations: 19 aircraft to Dieppe, 6 Blenheim Intruders, 1 Stirling on a leaflet flight. No losses.The Bomber Command War Diaries, Middlebrook and Everitt
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405 Vancouver Squadron (Ducimus) RAF Pocklington, Halifax II W 7708 LQ-H lost on an operation to Essen, Germany. Initially hit by flak, the aircraft was finished off by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Werner Rowlin of the 8/NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 from Twente airfield. The aircraft was abandoned, crashing at Bruchem, Gelderland, Netherlands
Flight Lieutenant JC Wernham MiD (RCAF), Sergeant WC Kerr (RCAF), FS GB Porter (RCAF), FS H Olsen (RCAF), Flight Lieutenant JA Maclean (RCAF), Sergeant F Shields (RAF) and Sergeant WJ Forbes (RAF) all survived and all except Flight Lieutenant Maclean were captured to become Prisoners of War. Flight Lieutenant Maclean evaded and was not captured
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