Berlin

Date

27 March 1943

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

396 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

151 airmen in this archive died on 27 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.

• Flight Sergeant Stanley Adams
• Sergeant Robert Anderson (25)
• Sergeant Dennis Ansley (22)
• Flying Officer Alexander Kenn Arnold (27)
• Sergeant John Atherton (34)
• Corporal Ronald Atkinson
• Pilot Officer John Auld
• Flight Sergeant Robert Francis Beckett (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas William Beckley (28)
• Sergeant William Bell
• Sergeant Leslie Percival Joseph Bellaby
• Sergeant John Francis Beresford (21)
• Pilot Officer Graeham William Berry (25)
• Pilot Officer David Andrew Blackley (31)
• Sergeant William James Stonard Boyd (23)
• Pilot Officer Thomas Henry Brown (24)
• Flying Officer James George Bruce (25)
• Pilot Officer Richard Lawrence Bulley (22)
• Sergeant Gordon Ronald Campbell (21)
• Sergeant Thomas Noel Chadwick (31)
• Pilot Officer Edward Challis (22)
• Leading Aircraftman John Edward Chinner (20)
• Sergeant Robert William Tylden Chisholm (26)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Keith James Clark (18)

See all 151 who died on 27 March →

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