Berlin

Date

25 August 1943

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

42 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

103 airmen in this archive died on 25 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.

• Lieutenant Abramowitz
• Flight Sergeant Frank Edward Adams (22)
• Flying Officer Ralph Hillier Andrews (22)
• Sergeant Robert Brian Armitage
• Sergeant Thomas Reginald Armstrong (22)
• Sergeant John Frederick Avison (20)
• Pilot Officer Ernest Donald Bonin
• Flying Officer William Bruce George Bonsey (32)
• Sergeant Rex Boulton
• Flight Sergeant Jack Bowyer (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Sydney Walter Morley Braine (57)
• Flight Sergeant John Glen Brislan (20)
• Sergeant Norman Conway Brown (20)
• Flight Sergeant William James Bunting (33)
• Flight Lieutenant Leslie Herbert Burden
• Flying Officer Robert Dallas Joseph Campbell (27)
• Flying Officer Raymond Trevor Chinery (20)
• Flight Sergeant Basil Elliott Clark (34)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Terrance Cooper (23)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Donald McPherson Craig (51)
• Leading Aircraftman Clifford Crowe (25)
• Flying Officer Allan Gordon Davies (33)
• Sergeant Brian Gray Donbavand (20)
• Flight Sergeant Arthur Douglas Drewe (24)

See all 103 who died on 25 August →

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