Berlin

Date

9 December 1944

Command

Bomber Command

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

88 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

19 airmen in this archive died on 9 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.

• Leading Aircraftman John Boulton (23)
• Flying Officer Frederick Charles Bower (22)
• Leading Aircraftman James Burgon (28)
• Leading Aircraftman George William Cook (30)
• Flying Officer Arthur Kenneth Cooper (19)
• Flying Officer Gordon Harry Dodds (28)
• Air Corporal Goldstone
• Flight Sergeant John Alexander Hay (22)
• Flying Officer Sydney John Holder (24)
• Flight Lieutenant John Kirkpatrick (25)
• Flying Officer Patrick Michael McClintock (24)
• Flight Sergeant Neil Francis Dallaway McGladrigan (22)
• Flight Sergeant Stanley James Moore (21)
• Pilot Officer Trevor Sutherland Powe (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Richard Winslow Rideout
• Flight Sergeant Robertson (29)
• Pilot Officer Richard Allan Shannon (23)
• Pilot Officer Charles Frederick Smith
• Flying Officer Francis Edward Sorensen (21)

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