Berlin

Date

8 February 1945

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

17 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

88 airmen in this archive died on 8 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.

• Lieutenant Harry D. Ashurst (26)
• Squadron Leader Alexander Hallam Baird (25)
• Flying Officer John Nesbitt Beattie (22)
• Lieutenant Hans Beel
• Warrant Officer Lionel John Bennett (25)
• Pilot Officer Claude Gerald Berges
• Lieutenant Black (22)
• Pilot Officer John Douglas Blackshaw (20)
• Pilot Officer William Edward Blunderfield (22)
• Air Mechanic Daniel Brazer
• Flight Lieutenant Noel Burrows (29)
• Pilot Officer Brian Leonard Butler (21)
• Warrant Officer Cecil Claude Caesar (31)
• Flying Officer Grant Alder Cahoon (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Gordon Oliver Cameron (23)
• Flight Sergeant Phillip Greig Cameron (31)
• Pilot Officer James Duncan Campbell (20)
• Flight Lieutenant John Carr (27)
• Flight Sergeant Willem Johannes Tobias Carstens (18)
• Flight Sergeant Raey Hilton Cheatle (20)
• Flying Officer Norman Douglas Cochrane (26)
• Pilot Officer Francis James Conway (22)
• Flight Lieutenant James Hector Cowie (22)
• Lieutenant Dittberner

See all 88 who died on 8 February →

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