Berlin

Date

22 March 1944

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

34 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

276 airmen in this archive died on 22 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.

• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Anderson (20)
• Sergeant William Arthur Roland Andrew (20)
• Flying Officer William Douglas Armour (21)
• Sergeant Ashley John Armstrong
• Sergeant Phil Atha (22)
• Sergeant Charles Henry Bagot
• Flying Officer Dennis Harold Bailey
• Flight Lieutenant Bernard James Balchin (27)
• Pilot Officer James Barclay
• Flying Officer Douglas Reginald Barham (23)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Lennox Barr
• Pilot Officer Peter Thomas Bath (24)
• Flight Sergeant John Edward Beaman (21)
• Sergeant Peter Franklyn Beard
• Flight Sergeant Arthur Beaumont
• Flying Officer John Creighton Beck (23)
• Flight Lieutenant John Rogers Beckett (27)
• Pilot Officer Alexander Matthew James Bell (34)
• Pilot Officer John Bell (22)
• Flight Sergeant Jack Norman Ernest Bennett (30)
• Pilot Officer Ciro Bertoia (20)
• Sergeant Frank George Stanley Bilney (21)
• Sergeant Leonard Douglas Blackford (24)
• Sergeant Frank Bolton (19)

See all 276 who died on 22 March →

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