Berlin

Date

26 February 1945

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

18 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

30 airmen in this archive died on 26 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.

• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Marcel Belanger (22)
• Flying Officer Rodolphe Joseph Lorenzo Boucher (31)
• Flight Sergeant Morley Junior Brewer (19)
• Flying Officer Henry James Brock (23)
• Warrant Officer Ivan William Butler (22)
• Flying Officer Sidney Thomas Carson (20)
• Pilot Officer Leslie Anwyl Chadwick (25)
• Sergeant Griffith Wynne Dixon (25)
• Flight Lieutenant John Fredrick Filteau
• Flight Sergeant Frederick George Fisher (30)
• Lieutenant Flack (28)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Leo Gallipeau (21)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Alexander Goodall (34)
• Flight Sergeant Stuart Samuel Hagerty (21)
• Squadron Leader Jack Holloway (28)
• Flight Sergeant Cyril Jackson (30)
• Pilot Officer Angus Mackie (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Claude Mapletoft (28)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Douglas Moore
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Edward Murphy
• Pilot Officer Harold Osbourn (34)
• Wing Commander John Richard Ratten (35)
• Flying Officer Richard McDiarmid Scott (26)
• Flying Officer John Edward Stanton (28)

See all 30 who died on 26 February →

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