Berlin

Date

11 March 1945

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

116 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

38 airmen in this archive died on 11 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 Bruce Andrew Stanley Abbott (21)
• Pilot Officer Frank Ernest Baker (29)
• Pilot Officer Hubert George Bishop
• Pilot Officer George Herbert Brock (22)
• Flight Sergeant John Derrick Bryant (30)
• Pilot Officer George Leonard Burgess (24)
• Flight Sergeant Lewis Walter Calder (23)
• Flying Officer Thomas Donovan Copeland (25)
• Wing Commander Ralph Frederick Davenport (32)
• Flying Officer Edmund Leonard Easton (25)
• Flying Officer Donald Arthur Fawthrop (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Raymond John Fern
• Leading Aircraftman Douglas Milne Finley (20)
• Pilot Officer Charles William Fraser (24)
• Flight Sergeant Hunter Gillender (21)
• Flying Officer Ronald Arthur Green (24)
• Flying Officer Donal Kevin Joseph Hector (24)
• Flight Sergeant Owain Gwynfor Jones (25)
• Flying Officer Joe Richard Latremouille (22)
• Pilot Officer Clarence Reginald Lecky (28)
• Pilot Officer Thomas Alexander Mallon (30)
• Warrant Officer Raymond William Moffat (23)
• Warrant Officer John Norton Mossop (30)
• Flight Sergeant George John Patrick O'Brien (21)

See all 38 who died on 11 March →

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