Berlin

Date

19 March 1944

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

40 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

137 airmen in this archive died on 19 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 Charles Reginald Allen (31)
• Second Lieutenant Ronald Stanley Austin (25)
• Warrant Officer Richard Francis Badman (30)
• Sergeant Larry Howard Jesse Barr (32)
• Flight Sergeant Jack Hume Bird (27)
• Pilot Officer George Alexander Bonnar (29)
• Sergeant Kenneth John Brettell
• Warrant Officer John Haig Broad (21)
• Flying Officer Norman Brockhouse (28)
• Sergeant Robert Harry Bryan
• Flying Officer Ronald Frank Calnan (25)
• Sergeant Clelland Mackenzie Campbell
• Squadron Leader Oswald Terence Cantor (36)
• Sergeant Henry William Clapinson (36)
• Warrant Officer Ronald Herbert Cook
• Flying Officer Alexander Valentine Cormack (29)
• Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Walton Cornwall (41)
• Flying Officer Neil Watson Crabtree (20)
• Sergeant Bertram Crosby (20)
• Sergeant Ernest Crossthwaite (21)
• Flying Officer Douglas Vernon Dalton (26)
• Flight Sergeant Jack Dansie (20)
• Flight Sergeant William Gordon Davies (23)
• Aircraftman 1st Class James Patrick Dean (21)

See all 137 who died on 19 March →

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