Berlin

Date

1 March 1943

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

302 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

212 airmen in this archive died on 1 March 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.

• Sergeant Andrew Syme Adger (23)
• Sergeant Colin Campbell Aitken (21)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Reginald Edmund Almond (29)
• Sergeant George William Armer (30)
• Flight Sergeant William Arnott (22)
• Pilot Officer Herbert Whitaker Astin
• Flight Sergeant William Frank Austin (23)
• Warrant Officer Kenneth Averill (28)
• Sergeant Cyril Avery
• Sergeant David Llewellyn Barley (20)
• Sergeant John Raymond Barrett (21)
• Sergeant William Henry Barrow (20)
• Sergeant Kenneth Frederick Bartholomew (20)
• Flight Sergeant Albert Leroy Bateman
• Sergeant Arthur Battram (22)
• Sergeant Alfred Beauchamp
• Sergeant Charles Edward Bellamy (22)
• Sergeant Dennis Ronald Bending (22)
• Flight Sergeant James William Billing (22)
• Flying Officer George Alexander Bisset (34)
• Flying Officer Norman Scott Black (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Douglas Henry Blackmore (20)
• Flight Sergeant William Edward Boardman (24)
• Sergeant Donald Edward Joseph Boland

See all 212 who died on 1 March →

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