Berlin

Date

13 September 1944

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

79 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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

48 airmen in this archive died on 13 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.

• Flight Lieutenant Karl Inge Aalborg (27)
• Pilot Officer Victor Abel (23)
• Flying Officer John William Bayard (24)
• Sergeant Jean Baptiste Belanger (36)
• Leading Aircraftman Charles Verdun Bone (27)
• Corporal Raymond James Bonnett (26)
• Flying Officer William Ransom Breithaupt (24)
• Flying Officer Clare Edward Brooks
• Flying Officer Robert John Brown (24)
• Flight Sergeant Harvey George Carson (22)
• Flying Officer Fred Marsden Clarke (22)
• Flight Sergeant Basil Edgar Columbus (19)
• Leading Aircraftman William Archibald Costigan (20)
• Flying Officer James Ernest Davidson (22)
• Warrant Officer George John Forbes (30)
• Flying Officer Arthur Alfred Frederick (24)
• Pilot Officer Wallis Conrad Glew (21)
• Warrant Officer Class I Horscroft
• Flight Sergeant Nathan Merrill Hurlbut (21)
• Sergeant Cyril Hutchinson
• Flight Lieutenant Abraham Lionel Kirsch (21)
• Flight Sergeant Ainsworth Laing (20)
• Pilot Officer Allan Douglas Macdougall (26)
• Flying Officer Richard Edwardes Maclaren (32)

See all 48 who died on 13 September →

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