Berlin

Date

15 April 1945

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

126 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

45 airmen in this archive died on 15 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.

• Flight Lieutenant Theodore Blanchard Atkinson (25)
• Warrant Officer Graham Morris Bagshaw (22)
• Flying Officer Colin Roy Baker (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Donat Marcel Bedard
• Flying Officer George Ferguson Bidstrup (20)
• Sergeant Donald Gerald Boutcher
• Flying Officer Herbert Brown (26)
• Flight Sergeant Colin William Burt (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Regis Fernand Charbonneau (19)
• Flight Sergeant Edward Arthur Crutchfield (23)
• Flight Lieutenant John Norrie Gordon Dick
• Flying Officer Douglas James Dickson (23)
• Flying Officer Robert Mould English
• Flight Sergeant Samuel Fernyhough (30)
• Flight Sergeant Sefton Clyde Joseph Ferrick (23)
• Flight Sergeant Gilbert Llewellyn George (19)
• Leading Aircraftman James Gibbons (24)
• Flight Sergeant John William Hamilton (29)
• Flying Officer Arthur Sydney Haynes (40)
• Sergeant William Spencer John Hickmore (28)
• Flight Sergeant Eric Douglas Hitchins (21)
• Pilot Officer Patrick Gordon Thomas Hoolihan (24)
• Sergeant Edward Charles Johnson (30)
• Corporal Barry Pugh Jones (24)

See all 45 who died on 15 April →

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