Berlin

Date

15 August 1944

Command

Bomber Command

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

39 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

81 airmen in this archive died on 15 August 1944 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 Peter Herbert Andrews (20)
• Flying Officer Bruce Richard Banfield (23)
• Warrant Officer Murray Alexander Baxter (23)
• Flight Sergeant Bruce George Harold Robert Bean (23)
• Flight Sergeant Marcus Bensley (21)
• Pilot Officer Donald McFarlane Bowe (20)
• Pilot Officer Frank Bradley
• Lieutenant Branch-clark (18)
• Flying Officer Douglas Walter Brown (34)
• Warrant Officer Dennis Cecil Burman (23)
• Pilot Officer Dean Gordon Charlick (23)
• Pilot Officer John Barry Cleaver
• Flying Officer Jacques Oliver Clerc (27)
• Sergeant Charles Cletheroe (24)
• Flight Sergeant Gaetan Gerard Collard (30)
• Lieutenant Denis James Williams Compton (24)
• Lieutenant Cedrick Arthur Cooke (30)
• Warrant Officer Class II De Jonge (23)
• Lieutenant De Klerk (22)
• Flight Sergeant Arthur Di Pesa (29)
• Flight Sergeant Nathan Dlusy (23)
• Flight Sergeant Robert James Douglas (22)
• Lieutenant Keith Fairweather
• Flight Sergeant Albert Wilson Farrer (30)

See all 81 who died on 15 August →

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