Berlin

Date

5 February 1945

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

64 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

32 airmen in this archive died on 5 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.

• Flight Lieutenant John Preston Barlow
• Flight Sergeant Layton Challander Barrett (20)
• Flight Sergeant Edgar Alan Barsby (20)
• Corporal William George Blair (23)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Arthur Brock
• Sergeant James Sydney Brown (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Douglass John Alexander Buchanan (24)
• Corporal David Cooper (24)
• Flying Officer William Arnold Coott
• Flying Officer David Henry Robert Evans (24)
• Pilot Officer John Leslie Foreman (24)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Gilbert Forseth (22)
• Flight Sergeant Christian Henry Gerner (20)
• Flying Officer Jack Arthur Gibbs (29)
• Flight Sergeant William Roy Gregory (22)
• Sergeant George Edward William Hodge (29)
• Flight Lieutenant William Robert Kearns (24)
• Flight Sergeant Dixon Ross Keast (20)
• Lieutenant McLeod (24)
• Flying Officer Maxwell Walter Moon (24)
• Pilot Officer Peter Matthew Oleinikoff (34)
• Flying Officer Moreland James Oxley (23)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Erskine Plante (31)
• Pilot Officer Colin Alexander Rattray (22)

See all 32 who died on 5 February →

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