Berlin

Date

9 March 1945

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

120 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

28 airmen in this archive died on 9 March 1945 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 John Weldon Cairns (24)
• Sergeant William James Carlyle (24)
• Flight Sergeant Peter Marlow Collier (21)
• Corporal Albert Leslie Davenport
• Lieutenant Davies (26)
• Second Lieutenant Dell (25)
• Lieutenant Fourie
• Flight Sergeant Patrick Sylvester Jennings (22)
• Flying Officer Francis Joseph Klapkew (27)
• Warrant Officer Class I Leviton (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Ernest William Martin
• Warrant Officer Class I Mayhew (21)
• Leading Aircraftman James McInerney (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Charles Bernard Muller (35)
• Lieutenant Nel (21)
• Second Lieutenant Odendaal (24)
• Flight Lieutenant William Gerald Oldham
• Flight Lieutenant Robert J. O'Sullivan (25)
• Flying Officer John Charles Paton (30)
• Air Mechanic Pearce
• Flying Officer Albert Thomas Phillips (28)
• Flight Lieutenant George Ivan Sheldrick (25)
• Warrant Officer Class I Slater (23)
• Lieutenant Somerset

See all 28 who died on 9 March →

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