Berlin

Date

19 March 1945

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

34 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

58 airmen in this archive died on 19 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.

• Pilot Officer Joseph Paul Hector Adam (21)
• Sergeant John Edward Aldridge (24)
• Flying Officer Richard Henry Appleyard (30)
• Flying Officer David Malcolm Armstrong (20)
• Flying Officer Lindsay Page Bacon (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Ralph Murray Baker (22)
• Flight Sergeant Alexander Banks (19)
• Warrant Officer Class I Andrew Paul Bell (21)
• Flight Sergeant George Robert Bond (26)
• Flying Officer Ross Malcolm Botting (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas Stafford Benedict Bracey (25)
• Sergeant Phillip James Brett (31)
• Pilot Officer Geoffrey Seymour Browne (20)
• Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth (26)
• Flying Officer Harold Chauncey Byrd
• Flying Officer Charles Alan Cobern (28)
• Corporal Nicholas Coghlan
• Warrant Officer Robert Courtney (40)
• Pilot Officer Selwyn George De Vis (21)
• Captain Dickson (22)
• Flying Officer Adrian West Essex (22)
• Flight Sergeant Anthony Henry Edward Floyd
• Flight Lieutenant Brian Kenneth Levinge Fuge (28)
• Flight Sergeant Llewellyn William Grant (24)

See all 58 who died on 19 March →

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