Berlin

Date

20 September 1943

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

28 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

87 airmen in this archive died on 20 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.

• Flying Officer Arthur George Gordon Atkins (20)
• Flying Officer Arthur Baron Fortescue Ayers (32)
• Flight Sergeant Eric George Bailey (25)
• Pilot Officer Robert Arthur Baker (21)
• Sergeant Thomas Baker (22)
• Squadron Leader Stanley Webster Baldie (29)
• Flying Officer Harry Everard Bazell (22)
• Pilot Officer George Alfred Berwick (26)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Hymie Bonder (23)
• Sergeant Arthur Bracey (22)
• Flight Sergeant Allan Rothery Breakspear (22)
• Flying Officer Beverly Ward Bristol (23)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Frederick Broad (22)
• Flying Officer James Wilfred Henry Brown (35)
• Sergeant Donald Arthur Brundell (32)
• Flying Officer Alfred Neil Buckland (28)
• Sergeant Bertram Sidney Burch (22)
• Flying Officer Hugh Burke (27)
• Aircraftman 1st Class John Garnet Byrne (19)
• Flight Sergeant Colin Stewart Cameron (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Sidney Carter
• Sergeant Richard Thomas Chinn (20)
• Flying Officer Albert Lawrence Coomes (25)
• Warrant Officer Class I Coughlan (28)

See all 87 who died on 20 September →

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