Berlin

Date

1 February 1944

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

13 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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

72 airmen in this archive died on 1 February 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 Percival Allen (22)
• Flying Officer Fred Illingworth Allison (33)
• Flying Officer Cedric Ivan Barber (29)
• Flying Officer Claudian George Barnett (26)
• Squadron Leader Allan Black (30)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Rene Roland Boyer (27)
• Sergeant Frank Victor Brade (25)
• Flying Officer Donald Glen Broad (19)
• Flight Sergeant John Thomas Brown
• Sergeant Francis Cecil Rudolph Burlefinger (26)
• Flight Sergeant Walter Horace Carr (19)
• Warrant Officer Patrick Daley (21)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Davies (30)
• Sergeant James Leo Devine (22)
• Flying Officer Donald James Duncan (23)
• Pilot Officer Donald Davies Finch (21)
• Flight Sergeant William Robert Cecil Fulton
• Sergeant George Gardner (19)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Norman Gilchrist (20)
• Flight Sergeant Percy Allen Eric Grant (21)
• Sergeant Cyril Robinson Greenwood (21)
• Warrant Officer William Grier (25)
• Lieutenant Harmer (27)
• Corporal James Harrison (29)

See all 72 who died on 1 February →

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