Berlin

Date

1 March 1944

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

68 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

83 airmen in this archive died on 1 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.

• Lieutenant Allison (29)
• Flight Sergeant James Victor Avery (22)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Minton Baker (23)
• Sergeant Donald Edward Barton (23)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Barnard Basford (20)
• Sergeant Philip Charles Bates (21)
• Flight Sergeant Alfred Gordon Beeston (22)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Herve Theodore R. Bertrand (19)
• Flight Sergeant Leonard Eric Bignall (22)
• Flying Officer William Egbert Trevor Bladen (22)
• Pilot Officer Elbert Cyril Bousquet (19)
• Flying Officer Walter Dawson Carl Boyd (24)
• Sergeant George Wilson Brass (25)
• Sergeant Patrick Brosnan (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Allan Buckley (24)
• Sergeant James McLeod Campbell
• Corporal Jack Manning Carter (28)
• Second Lieutenant Cockburn (19)
• Pilot Officer Frederick John Cooke (22)
• Sergeant William Henry Cooksey (23)
• Sergeant Charles Edward Cote (22)
• Flying Officer Alexander Crozier (23)
• Flight Sergeant Hiram Tom Davies (20)
• Sergeant James Ernest Dix (38)

See all 83 who died on 1 March →

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