Berlin

Date

3 March 1944

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

45 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

119 airmen in this archive died on 3 March 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.

• Flying Officer Thomas Johnston Adamson (34)
• Flying Officer Frederick Aiston (23)
• Sergeant Edward James Atkinson
• Flying Officer William James Bailey
• Sergeant Richard Bell
• Sergeant George Henry Bodsworth
• Sergeant Amos Frederick Bogan (26)
• Sergeant Norman Philip Bond (19)
• Flight Lieutenant James Harold Botham (23)
• Sergeant Alan Bowker (20)
• Flying Officer Edward George Brown (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Leslie George Brown (21)
• Flying Officer Peter Norman Brown
• Sergeant Donald Garforth Browne (20)
• Pilot Officer Robert George Calder (26)
• Warrant Officer Class II John Caldwell Calhoun (24)
• Warrant Officer Class II William Warren Campbell (33)
• Corporal Victor John Carroll (28)
• Sergeant Frederick Cheney (33)
• Lieutenant Classen (25)
• Sergeant Lawrence Eric Crick (21)
• Flying Officer Colin Desmond Croxford (21)
• Sergeant Walter Percy Cullen
• Sergeant James Davies

See all 119 who died on 3 March →

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