Berlin

Date

19 February 1944

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

79 aircraft

Aircraft lost

59

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

494 airmen in this archive died on 19 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.

• Sergeant Arthur Ronald Albone (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Orlin Ronald Alexander
• Pilot Officer Francis Frederick George Allan
• Pilot Officer John Francis Allen (29)
• Pilot Officer Foster Richard Alleyn (22)
• Sergeant Kenneth Arthur Archer (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Clifford Harold Armour
• Sergeant Vincent Joseph Ashmore (21)
• Pilot Officer James Desmond Aspin (21)
• Sergeant David Beaumont Asquith (22)
• Pilot Officer John James Astles
• Sergeant Albert Ronald Bailey (26)
• Warrant Officer Frederick John Bailey (21)
• Flight Sergeant George Bailey (21)
• Sergeant Christopher Thomas Baker (20)
• Sergeant Bernard Henry John Baldwin (21)
• Pilot Officer William Sidney Ball (30)
• Sergeant Ronald Frederick Banks (21)
• Flying Officer Arnold Smedley Barclay
• Sergeant Albert Kenneth Barlow (21)
• Pilot Officer John Donald Bates (19)
• Sergeant William Alexander Bates (23)
• Flying Officer Harold Knowles Battye (26)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class John Samuel Baxter (21)

See all 494 who died on 19 February →

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