Berlin

Date

13 April 1944

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

45 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

93 airmen in this archive died on 13 April 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.

• Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Edward Allen
• Flying Officer John Alfred Amy (26)
• Sergeant Glyn Robert (bob) Aspinall (20)
• Sergeant James Atkinson (27)
• Sergeant Ronald Jackson Baird (20)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Horace Edwin Barnett (41)
• Lieutenant Barrett
• Sergeant John Brian Baskerville (23)
• Sergeant Dennis Anthony Bennett (22)
• Flying Officer Edmund Maurice Berry (24)
• Sergeant Donald Black (20)
• Flight Sergeant Harry Boardman (30)
• Flight Sergeant Colin Baxter Bowling (32)
• Flight Sergeant Huia Nelson Burns (22)
• Flight Sergeant William Wright Campbell
• Sergeant Herbert Duncan Collershaw
• Flying Officer Edward John Cooper
• Flying Officer Raymond Jack Crossfield (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Earle Cullen (23)
• Flying Officer Raymond Jack Debenham (22)
• Flying Officer Bryan Hedley Dennis (21)
• Flying Officer Charles Cyril Drew (27)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Douglas Duggan (22)
• Pilot Officer Glen Richard Dunn

See all 93 who died on 13 April →

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