Berlin

Date

17 July 1944

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

16 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

65 airmen in this archive died on 17 July 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.

• Pilot Officer Percy Leonard Alp (30)
• Flight Lieutenant George Leonard Barker (30)
• Flight Sergeant Edward Laurence Bishop (26)
• Flying Officer Robert Wallace Blair (19)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Arthur Blasko (19)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick George Brezina (26)
• Squadron Leader Charles Gordon Bull
• Captain Burger
• Sergeant Ronald Frank Burgess (22)
• Pilot Officer Robert Elwood Burton
• Sergeant James Alexander Calder (21)
• Leading Aircraftman William Charles Carney (31)
• Pilot Officer Douglas Alexander Carson
• Air Commodore Guy Lloyd Carter (44)
• Flying Officer Peter Clark
• Pilot Officer Ralph Stewart Cole (22)
• Pilot Officer Douglas Alexander Cooper (25)
• Flying Officer William John Curtis (35)
• Flight Lieutenant Theron Elwyn Daniels (41)
• Flying Officer John William Kirkwood Dunn (35)
• Air Corporal Rudolf Du Preez
• Flying Officer Ronald Gordon Ellis (27)
• Sergeant Richard George Foster (22)
• Squadron Leader Walter William Beresford Gale (24)

See all 65 who died on 17 July →

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