Berlin

Date

6 December 1944

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

23 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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

82 airmen in this archive died on 6 December 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.

• Flight Sergeant Colwyn Parker Angus (23)
• Pilot Officer Robert Kenneth Armstrong (22)
• Pilot Officer Orval George Backes (29)
• Flying Officer Jack Douglas Baird (20)
• Pilot Officer Cecil Henry Baldwin (29)
• Lieutenant Begg (25)
• Pilot Officer Jabez Kevin Bendall (24)
• Flight Sergeant Frank Alexander Black (31)
• Flying Officer Alan Campbell Bond (34)
• Air Mechanic Christoffel J. Botha
• Sergeant Laurence Ernest Brown (24)
• Flying Officer Frederick Cradock Bull (26)
• Flight Lieutenant William Edgar Cayley (47)
• Warrant Officer Class I James George William Chalmers
• Flying Officer Gordon Roy Cheesman (29)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Cregeen Christian (24)
• Pilot Officer Edwin Spencer Charles Clark (21)
• Sergeant Thomas Wesley Cook (36)
• Pilot Officer James Coulter Copeland (21)
• Flying Officer William Nathan Cosman
• Pilot Officer Gerald Philip Coughlin (18)
• Sergeant Alexander James Crammond (29)
• Sergeant Stanley Esmond Cross (19)
• Pilot Officer Joseph M. De Macedo (21)

See all 82 who died on 6 December →

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