Berlin

Date

30 January 1944

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

534 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

294 airmen in this archive died on 30 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.

• Sergeant Frederick Thomas Henry Adams (23)
• Sergeant Lawrence Sidney John Adkin (21)
• Pilot Officer Douglas Affleck (22)
• Pilot Officer Robert Edward Allan
• Flight Sergeant Norman William Allen (23)
• Sergeant William Andrew Melrose Anderson (30)
• Pilot Officer Reginald Thomas Andrews (22)
• Sergeant Roy Henry Appleton (21)
• Sergeant Albert John Owen Archer (23)
• Warrant Officer Richard Geoffrey Arding (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Howard Charles Sheffield Armstrong (24)
• Flying Officer Albert Henry Ashford
• Sergeant Donald Apsey Backhouse (19)
• Sergeant Charles Ronald Bailey (24)
• Warrant Officer Class II Clifford Stanley Baker (23)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Richard Ball (30)
• Sergeant Carlin Anthony Bannon (20)
• Sergeant Fred Barrett (22)
• Sergeant Kenneth Walter Barry (21)
• Sergeant James Elliot Beattie (19)
• Flying Officer Bernard Arthur William Beer (29)
• Flying Officer Charles William Binnie (25)
• Sergeant Norman Nicholas Bligh (19)
• Flight Sergeant Harold James Boal (20)

See all 294 who died on 30 January →

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