Berlin

Date

24 March 1944

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

811 aircraft

Aircraft lost

72

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

473 airmen in this archive died on 24 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 Lieutenant Ronald Henry Ackland
• Pilot Officer William George Adamson (28)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas James Adkison
• Pilot Officer Clifford Leslie Eldridge Allen (22)
• Sergeant Ernest Alfred Anthony (22)
• Sergeant Robert Geoffrey Arthur (22)
• Sergeant Richard Graham Atkinson (21)
• Flight Sergeant Alfred Ayres (24)
• Flight Lieutenant David Percy Bain (33)
• Sergeant William George Baker (20)
• Flying Officer John Moody Baldwin (23)
• Pilot Officer Leo Bandle
• Flight Sergeant Henry Keith Barden (21)
• Sergeant Thomas James Barnett (39)
• Sergeant Charles Geoffrey Gordon Bateman
• Flight Sergeant Victor William Bath (31)
• Leading Aircraftman Belfield
• Flying Officer Peter Anthony Charles Bell (23)
• Sergeant Philip Charles Knill Bennett (19)
• Sergeant Stanley George Bentley (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Leonard Thomas Berrigan
• Squadron Leader Kenneth George Bickers (21)
• Sergeant Thomas William Bint
• Sergeant Eric Birch

See all 473 who died on 24 March →

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