Berlin

Date

19 April 1945

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

119 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

54 airmen in this archive died on 19 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.

• Flying Officer Peter Douglas Allan (22)
• Flying Officer Robert William Anderson (20)
• Corporal Arthur James Balls (27)
• Flying Officer Luke Barnes (22)
• Warrant Officer William Andrew Irving Bone (24)
• Flight Sergeant Roger Thomas Bridger (24)
• Leading Aircraftman William Stalker Burns (34)
• Flight Sergeant Gordon Phillip Charlebois (29)
• Flying Officer Charles Phillip Dent Childs (32)
• Captain Coetzee
• Flight Lieutenant Henry Cowan (24)
• Flight Sergeant Clarence George Cuddehay (45)
• Warrant Officer Ronald Gordon Dawson (24)
• Warrant Officer Class I Robert Gordon Douglas (28)
• Warrant Officer Frank Barker Duffield (23)
• Warrant Officer Class I Vincent Albert Fox (26)
• Lieutenant Harry Noel Greenberg (28)
• Corporal Trevor Griffiths (19)
• Flight Lieutenant John Wilbert Edmund Harten (27)
• Flight Sergeant Alfred Edward Hewick
• Flight Lieutenant Mervin Cooksley Hogg (24)
• Warrant Officer Lawrence Beresford Hamilton Hope (29)
• Flying Officer Lawrence Kendall Jackson
• Flight Lieutenant Leonard Alfred Jackson (27)

See all 54 who died on 19 April →

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