Berlin

Date

18 September 1944

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

104 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

76 airmen in this archive died on 18 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.

• Flying Officer John Smith Seaton Aird (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Geoffrey Frank Austen
• Corporal Ronald Arthur Bailey (28)
• Pilot Officer John Douglas Baker (21)
• Flying Officer Alexander Forbes Ballantyne (25)
• Pilot Officer George Samuel Crawford Bell (23)
• Flight Sergeant John Duncan Boyd (27)
• Flight Sergeant George Stanley Breckels (19)
• Flying Officer Edward Cyril Buckland (19)
• Corporal Norman William Cant (21)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Earl Walter Caouette (21)
• Warrant Officer Stanley Herbert Coeshott (23)
• Corporal John Redmond Coleman (26)
• Warrant Officer Edward Douglas Haig Collard (27)
• Pilot Officer Neville James Costin (25)
• Air Mechanic Cramer (38)
• Flight Sergeant David William Coll Ellison (20)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Keith Emrose (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Francis William Farrar (38)
• Flight Sergeant Dennis Fletcher (29)
• Flight Lieutenant Alastair Glasgow Gibb (25)
• Wing Commander Guy Penrose Gibson (26)
• Squadron Leader John Philip Gilliard (24)
• Air Mechanic Hugo Hahn (18)

See all 76 who died on 18 September →

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