Berlin

Date

4 January 1945

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

68 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

99 airmen in this archive died on 4 January 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.

• Flying Officer John Charles Adams (23)
• Flight Sergeant Keith Stanley Franz Allen (31)
• Flight Sergeant Richard James Andrews (23)
• Pilot Officer Clifford Norman Aune
• Pilot Officer William Bainbridge
• Flying Officer Lawrence John Benville (21)
• Sergeant Edward Archibald Bishop (21)
• Flight Sergeant Alexander Gordon Bolger (23)
• Lieutenant Boughey
• Flight Lieutenant Lorne William Brand
• Sergeant Harold Bryan Spencer Brenchley
• Corporal James Carson Broadbent (24)
• Pilot Officer Francis Norman Brown (19)
• Flight Sergeant Sidney Arthur Brown (20)
• Flight Sergeant Maxwell Browne (23)
• Corporal Bruce Allan Brownjohn (29)
• Flight Sergeant Walter Matthew Burton (24)
• Flight Sergeant Leonard William Cann (22)
• Flying Officer Clyde Allen Cassidy (23)
• Pilot Officer James Thomas Clarke
• Squadron Leader Basil Glynn Crew (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Raymond Henry Curtis (40)
• Flight Sergeant John Edward Dansey
• Flying Officer Ulva Neil Dudley (25)

See all 99 who died on 4 January →

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