Berlin

Date

20 April 1945

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

114 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

36 airmen in this archive died on 20 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 Robert William Anderson (20)
• Lieutenant Blacklaws (19)
• Flight Sergeant Roger Thomas Bridger (24)
• Flight Sergeant Gordon Phillip Charlebois (29)
• Lieutenant Cowell
• Flight Sergeant Clarence George Cuddehay (45)
• Lieutenant Cuff
• Squadron Leader Eric Stanley Few (25)
• Warrant Officer Edward Arthur Green (24)
• Flying Officer Harry Robert Hanscom
• Flight Sergeant Alfred Edward Hewick
• Warrant Officer John Penboss Hunt (20)
• Pilot Officer Russell Stuart Jack (22)
• Air Mechanic Cornelius Lombard (23)
• Lieutenant Lowe (20)
• Flying Officer Archibald Roy McCurdy (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Bruce Calder McKenzie (24)
• Lieutenant John Hellon Nixon (24)
• Lieutenant Oakes
• Leading Aircraftman Albert John Paddon (36)
• Flight Sergeant Francis Clesphas Martial Robitaille (28)
• Flying Officer Alec Stanley Broadhurst Rushton (30)
• Flying Officer William Carnduff Russell (27)
• Flying Officer Bruce Fredric Scott (22)

See all 36 who died on 20 April →

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