Berlin

Date

17 January 1943

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

189 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

197 airmen in this archive died on 17 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 Kenneth Roy Aicken (25)
• Sergeant Stanley Allen (32)
• Sergeant Francis Bernard Andrews (30)
• Sergeant James Sidney Atkin
• Sergeant Leslie Ernest Austin
• Sergeant George Arthur Axup (19)
• Sergeant James Henry Bakewell (22)
• Sergeant Derrick John Ball
• Flight Sergeant Henry Craig Beebe (40)
• Sergeant John Bell
• Flight Sergeant John Keith Bond (28)
• Sergeant Leslie James Bond
• Sergeant Robert Douglas Bradbury (20)
• Pilot Officer Frederick Arthur Braybrook (22)
• Sergeant John Charles Brittain (22)
• Sergeant John William Robinson Broadley
• Leading Aircraftman James Bolland Burd (19)
• Pilot Officer Wilfrid Gordon Burrows (25)
• Pilot Officer Kenneth Frank Butler (33)
• Sergeant Edward Cadden
• Sergeant Richard Calcutt

See all 197 who died on 17 January →

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