Berlin

Date

1 February 1945

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

10 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

110 airmen in this archive died on 1 February 1945 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.

• Flying Officer Arthur Appleby (24)
• Flight Lieutenant William Reginald Arnold (23)
• Pilot Officer Robert Owen Bailey (20)
• Wing Commander William Geoffrey Bannister (33)
• Flight Sergeant Allen Bernard Barrett (32)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Jack Bean (20)
• Flying Officer John Douglas Campbell Bell (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Douglas Elliott Berry
• Sergeant Douglas George Betts
• Flight Lieutenant Norman Philip Blain (22)
• Flying Officer Harry Bloch (33)
• Pilot Officer Edward Anthony Bogan (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Douglas Boyd (24)
• Flight Sergeant John Brady (23)
• Flight Sergeant James Pirie Brown
• Flight Lieutenant Lyle Ewart Button (21)
• Corporal Bindon John Carr (35)
• Pilot Officer John Hamilton Carter (29)
• Flight Sergeant Phillip John Carter (19)
• Flying Officer Robert John Clark (27)
• Sergeant Raymond George Coles (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Noel Sidney Caesar Colley (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Francis Leslie Conn (29)
• Pilot Officer Francis Alma Coombs (25)

See all 110 who died on 1 February →

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