Berlin

Date

24 August 1943

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

66 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

385 airmen in this archive died on 24 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)
• Flying Officer Ralph Hillier Andrews (22)
• Sergeant Robert Brian Armitage
• 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
• Sergeant Roy Frederick Avis (22)
• Sergeant John Frederick Avison (20)
• Sergeant Andrew Bain (27)
• Warrant Officer William Charles Baker (21)
• Squadron Leader William Henry Baldwin (33)
• Sergeant Fred Ball
• Sergeant Leslie Bambridge
• Sergeant Mark Sidney Baras (19)
• Sergeant Richard Barrass

See all 385 who died on 24 August →

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