Berlin

Date

23 August 1943

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

727 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

442 airmen in this archive died on 23 August 1943 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.

• Sergeant Frank Abell (29)
• Flight Sergeant Stanley William Abrams
• Sergeant Woodward Russell Acland (35)
• Sergeant Frank Kitchener Alcock (28)
• Sergeant Alan Brian Allen (19)
• Warrant Officer Harold Edward Allen (22)
• Flight Lieutenant John Theodore Anderton (23)
• Sergeant Luther Arthur Appelt (24)
• Flight Sergeant John Thomas Armstrong (21)
• Flight Sergeant Albert Ernest Arter (20)
• Flying Officer Norman Ashburner (27)
• Sergeant Robert Askwith
• Flight Sergeant Vincent Eardley Attree (22)
• Flight Sergeant John Francis Aubrey (27)
• Flying Officer John Austin
• Flight Sergeant William Henry Austin (32)
• Sergeant Roy Frederick Avis (22)
• Pilot Officer Cyril Peter Backlog
• Sergeant Joseph William Bailey (23)
• Sergeant Andrew Bain (27)
• Warrant Officer William Charles Baker (21)
• Squadron Leader William Henry Baldwin (33)
• Sergeant Fred Ball
• Sergeant Leslie Bambridge

See all 442 who died on 23 August →

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