Berlin

Date

5 February 1944

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

48 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

100 airmen in this archive died on 5 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 Roy Allman (21)
• Flight Sergeant James Anderson (21)
• Flying Officer Alan Greeves Archibald (33)
• Flying Officer Lawrence Andrew Arner
• Warrant Officer Alfred Stewart Arnold (25)
• Warrant Officer Stanley Beaton (27)
• Flight Sergeant William John Barrie Bishop (21)
• Flying Officer Norman Peter Blacklock
• Flight Lieutenant Peter Harden Goyen Blight (24)
• Flight Sergeant Henry Arnold Booth
• Warrant Officer Class I John Gordon Boothe (30)
• Pilot Officer Laurence Neill Botsford (25)
• Leading Aircraftman Jim Bradley (23)
• Flying Officer Ronald William Bremner (21)
• Flying Officer Richard Samuel Henry Browning
• Leading Aircraftman Frederick Cecil Bull (23)
• Warrant Officer Class I Alfred G.t. Burnett (35)
• Flight Sergeant Alan Campbell (26)
• Sergeant John Carless (22)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Carling (18)
• Sergeant James Jackson Cassels (18)
• Sergeant Henry Denton Clough (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Hubert James Colenutt (21)
• Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Thomas Cox (22)

See all 100 who died on 5 February →

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