Berlin

Date

27 January 1945

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

12 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

78 airmen in this archive died on 27 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.

• Corporal Ray Ellis Allen (26)
• Flight Sergeant Lloyd Haig Ames (27)
• Flight Lieutenant George Alexander Anderson (26)
• Wing Commander Nigel William Barker (31)
• Sergeant Reginald Thomas Barter (24)
• Flying Officer Alfred Vincent Eric Bate (31)
• Lieutenant Edward Baxter
• Flying Officer Peter Norham Birt (20)
• Flying Officer John Wilfred Blades
• Sergeant Walter Desmond Boss (21)
• Sergeant Edward Max Bowman (27)
• Warrant Officer Marshall Vivian Muir Bowness (28)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Henry Brown (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Edward Louis Calder (34)
• Flight Sergeant John Hunter Carter (22)
• Pilot Officer Russell Edmund Chatfield (32)
• Flying Officer Colin Laidler Chisholm (23)
• Flying Officer Nurden Anderson Chowns (21)
• Pilot Officer Harold Luther Clark
• Flying Officer Peter Wilberforce Clarkson (21)
• Flying Officer Franklin Howard Cummer (21)
• Flying Officer Allan Dalglish (27)
• Pilot Officer Gordon James Doyle (23)
• Flying Officer Allan Llewellyn Evans (24)

See all 78 who died on 27 January →

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