Berlin

Date

10 September 1944

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

73 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

50 airmen in this archive died on 10 September 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.

• Sergeant Jacob Anderson (48)
• Flying Officer Derek Allan Attwood (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Gordon James Barraball (25)
• Pilot Officer Colin Douglas Bell (25)
• Pilot Officer George Henry Blom (25)
• Pilot Officer Douglas Arthur Burnell (26)
• Captain Joseph W. Capstick (32)
• Flight Sergeant William Morton Christie (22)
• Sergeant George Cecil Cole (43)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Archibald Corbett (22)
• Warrant Officer Class II Richard Alvinzie Crowell (21)
• Corporal Francis William Darlington
• Leading Aircraftman Roy Cecil Edwards (23)
• Flight Sergeant Bruce Woodward Ellison (26)
• Captain Eric Arnold Endler
• Leading Aircraftman William John Ervin (29)
• Corporal Jack Garside
• Flying Officer Kenneth Grose (21)
• Flying Officer George Marshall Houston (28)
• Flight Sergeant James Howard Ireland (20)
• Flying Officer John Nicholas Kerry (23)
• Lieutenant Ralph W. E. Kingwell (27)
• Flying Officer Michael John Laderoute (22)
• Flying Officer Frederick Stanley Le Gear (21)

See all 50 who died on 10 September →

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