Berlin

Date

27 October 1944

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

60 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

61 airmen in this archive died on 27 October 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.

• Flight Sergeant Archibald Malcolm Charles Alexander (24)
• Pilot Officer Lloyd Bennett Armstrong (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Edwin Lusk Ashbury
• Sergeant Harold Arthur Bayliss (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Henri Paul Rogers Begin
• Lieutenant Berry
• Warrant Officer Arthur Benjamin Brennan (22)
• Pilot Officer Victorien Armand Gilbert Brochu (22)
• Sergeant Ralph Joseph Bryant (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Edward Carrington Bunting (34)
• Pilot Officer David Kenneth Caldwell (28)
• Flight Sergeant Lawrence Gordon Calman (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Stewart Campbell
• Leading Aircraftman Robert Joseph Caverly
• Flying Officer Robert Morse Cooper
• Flying Officer George Arnold Costello (21)
• Warrant Officer Henry John Davis (26)
• Pilot Officer Henry William Ferris
• Flying Officer James Roy Fichtner
• Flying Officer Arthur Henry Foreman (28)
• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Odon Rodolphe Eloi Yves Girard (31)
• Flight Sergeant Bruce Edward Greenhalgh
• Flight Sergeant Norman Stanley Harbor (22)
• Pilot Officer William Henry Herman

See all 61 who died on 27 October →

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