Berlin

Date

12 March 1945

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

100 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

37 airmen in this archive died on 12 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 George Herbert Brock (22)
• Flight Sergeant John Derrick Bryant (30)
• Pilot Officer George Leonard Burgess (24)
• Flight Sergeant Lewis Walter Calder (23)
• Flying Officer Manoel Callas (27)
• Flying Officer James Paul Farrell (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Harry John Fowler (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Murray Macdonald Gardner (28)
• Corporal Charles Henry George
• Warrant Officer Class II Floyd Eugene George (20)
• Flying Officer Edward Franklin Gilbert (26)
• Leading Aircraftman Arthur James Gilder (38)
• Flight Sergeant Hunter Gillender (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas E. Gorringe (23)
• Flying Officer Ronald Arthur Green (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Alfred Haywood (25)
• Pilot Officer Daniel William Hodge (19)
• Pilot Officer George Alexander Kennedy (22)
• Pilot Officer Thomas Alexander Mallon (30)
• Warrant Officer Raymond William Moffat (23)
• Wing Commander Victor Rundle Oats (29)
• Flight Sergeant George John Patrick O'Brien (21)

See all 37 who died on 12 March →

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