Berlin

Date

10 January 1944

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

20 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

53 airmen in this archive died on 10 January 1944 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 Sergeant Richard George Aldworth (20)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class William Christopher Allen (19)
• Sergeant Harry Barton Annan (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Gerard Harcourt Bannister
• Pilot Officer Joseph Peter Bassett (23)
• Sergeant Robert Charles Henry Beal (20)
• Warrant Officer Class II Thomas James Beechinor (25)
• Pilot Officer Alwyn Thomas Charles Benson (33)
• Flying Officer Keith Gregory Berry (31)
• Sergeant Raymond Silk Borlase (20)
• Warrant Officer Class II Douglas Walter Bowell
• Flight Sergeant John Stapleton Britter (22)
• Pilot Officer Gordon Elmore Clode (23)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick Court (39)
• Sergeant Roy Dawson (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Dennis Devereese (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Adam Matthew Di Filippo (23)
• Flight Sergeant Sydney Draycott (21)
• Sergeant John James Golding (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Evan Thomas Griffiths (22)
• Leading Aircraftman David Martin Hair (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Godfrey Simon Harcourt
• Pilot Officer Herbert Hare (25)
• Flying Officer Frank Kingsley Hughes (29)

See all 53 who died on 10 January →

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