Berlin

Date

13 June 1943

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

44 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

247 airmen in this archive died on 13 June 1943 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 Robert Jasper Agur
• Sergeant John Aitken
• Flying Officer Robert Beckett Albon (22)
• Sergeant George Alfred Ayres (19)
• Sergeant Herbert Baker (18)
• Flight Sergeant Edward Alexander Baldwin (22)
• Sergeant Douglas Wallace Bartholomew (32)
• Sergeant Leslie Thomas Beard (20)
• Sergeant Claude Stephen Bell (35)
• Flight Sergeant Theodore Albert Belot (28)
• Leading Aircraftman William Barnett Blackhall (34)
• Pilot Officer Edward Hunter Bond (22)
• Sergeant Jack Stewart Boyd (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Virgil Paul Brennan (23)
• Sergeant Nicholas John Brokenshire (21)
• Sergeant Reginald Bromley
• Sergeant Wilfred James Brookes (22)
• Sergeant John George Brown (33)
• Sergeant Vincent John Browne (22)
• Sergeant D McD. Buchan
• Sergeant Thomas Mountford Adie Burgess (20)
• Sergeant Edward Burton (22)
• Flight Sergeant Mark Charles Burton (22)
• Sergeant Ralph Blackton Butler (22)

See all 247 who died on 13 June →

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