Berlin

Date

3 April 1945

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

122 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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

77 airmen in this archive died on 3 April 1945 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.

• Lieutenant Alexander (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Colin Bently Arbon (27)
• Flight Sergeant Sydney Raymond Bacon (21)
• Flying Officer James Arthur Gordon Beck (24)
• Sergeant Lloyd Sinclair Bentley (34)
• Warrant Officer John William Bessant (45)
• Air Sergeant Blatherwick
• Lieutenant Blatt (24)
• Leading Aircraftman John Campbell (30)
• Pilot Officer Elden Fleetwood Carlisle (27)
• Lieutenant Carter (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Philip Edward Cawthorne (23)
• Flight Sergeant Lester Cockerham (20)
• Flight Sergeant John Leo Cooke (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Ronald Edwin Cox (24)
• Second Lieutenant Dalton (20)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Dickie (29)
• Warrant Officer Andrew Stanley Dickson (21)
• Flying Officer Leslie Keith Driver (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Everett Embert Ettinger (22)
• Flying Officer Arthur Benjamin Fischer (21)
• Air Mechanic Fortmann (25)
• Flying Officer Alexander Donald Fraser
• Sergeant Philip Roy Clifford (phil) Freeman (29)

See all 77 who died on 3 April →

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