Berlin

Date

16 January 1943

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

201 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

122 airmen in this archive died on 16 January 1943 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 Ronald Geoffrey (ron) Absalom (21)
• Air Mechanic Adams (19)
• Pilot Officer Lawrence Rockliffe Adcock
• Sergeant Francis Bernard Andrews (30)
• Sergeant James Sidney Atkin
• Sergeant James Henry Bakewell (22)
• Sergeant Derrick John Ball
• Warrant Officer Class II Robert Francis Bird (22)
• Sergeant Leslie James Bond
• Pilot Officer Frederick Arthur Braybrook (22)
• Flight Sergeant Alvin John Broemeling (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Claude Brook (31)
• Leading Aircraftman Edward George Brooker
• Leading Aircraftman James Bolland Burd (19)
• Sergeant John Jesse Cadd (20)
• Sergeant Eric Archibald Owen Campbell (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Edward George Carpenter (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Arthur Russel Chaplin (26)
• Flying Officer Geoffrey Addison Clegg (19)
• Captain Cecil Lawrence Cousins (31)
• Sergeant Hamilton Cowan
• Aircraftman 1st Class Edmond Sprainger Cubbon (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Edward James Daniels (46)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Picton Davies (35)

See all 122 who died on 16 January →

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