Berlin

Date

3 September 1943

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

399 aircraft

Aircraft lost

23

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

247 airmen in this archive died on 3 September 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.

• Flight Sergeant Walter Howden Allan (27)
• Flying Officer Thomas Hessey Allanson (26)
• Flight Sergeant Cyril Eugene Ashworth
• Sergeant Dennis Sydney Audley (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Frederick James Barnes (27)
• Sergeant Percy Barnsley (22)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Francis George Barrell (18)
• Sergeant Anthony Richard Duncan Bedbrook
• Sergeant Alan Bell (21)
• Flight Sergeant Norman Edwin Bellman (31)
• Sergeant Robert Edward Belton (24)
• Flying Officer Victor Edward Bill
• Sergeant John Billington (26)
• Flying Officer Raymond Thomas James Bilney (31)
• Lieutenant Boyer (21)
• Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Allen Bradshaw (21)
• Sergeant Leonard Sidney Breley (25)
• Sergeant Kenneth Ernest Bright (26)
• Flying Officer Frederick Timothy Brosnahan (25)
• Sergeant David Ronald Browne (20)
• Sergeant George Banks Buchan (29)
• Flight Lieutenant John Morton Buckle (40)
• Sergeant Neville Edward Burgess (22)
• Sergeant William Burnell

See all 247 who died on 3 September →

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