Berlin

Date

12 April 1945

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

110 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

46 airmen in this archive died on 12 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.

• Warrant Officer Gordon Ross Adam (25)
• Pilot Officer John Andrew Allen (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Russell Bradfield Ashley (31)
• Flying Officer Robert Alec Bamford
• Wing Commander Ronald Edward Bary (29)
• Lieutenant Bremner (26)
• Flight Lieutenant Maurice John Thomas Cane
• Pilot Officer Albert Darby (23)
• Flying Officer Trevor Percival Dollery (22)
• Flying Officer James William Alexander Duffy (31)
• Flight Sergeant Clutha Charles Ealam (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Walter Ronald Eaton
• Flying Officer Rupert Edward Campbell Edwards (36)
• Pilot Officer Colin Ware Evans (27)
• Warrant Officer Gavin Matthew Goldfinch (26)
• Warrant Officer William Henry Heath (26)
• Flying Officer Errol Johnston (28)
• Lieutenant John Seton Lawrence
• Flight Sergeant George Arthur Leek (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Patrick Lowney (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Harold Ferguson McBride (21)
• Lieutenant McCormick (23)
• Flying Officer Philip John McNair (23)
• Corporal William Emmerson Metcalfe (25)

See all 46 who died on 12 April →

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