Berlin

Date

24 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

81 airmen in this archive died on 24 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 Lorne Raymond Aljoe (21)
• Flying Officer William Anderson (25)
• Flight Sergeant Norman Hanson Ashworth (28)
• Flight Lieutenant John Benjamin Barnes
• Pilot Officer William Keith Bennett (23)
• Pilot Officer Leonard Frank Branston (20)
• Pilot Officer Lawrence William Brennan (31)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Rupert Bruce (24)
• Warrant Officer Class II James Ewart Bunn
• Flight Lieutenant Arthur Henry Burr
• Flying Officer Bernard Arthur Burrows (21)
• Flight Sergeant Ambrose Arthur Chapman
• Warrant Officer James Alexander Chapman (26)
• Lieutenant Chegwyn
• Squadron Leader William Ritchie Christison (26)
• Pilot Officer Clarence Leonard Cofield
• Flight Lieutenant Cooper (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Gordon Couldrey (28)
• Flying Officer Ian Rees Cowan (22)
• Flying Officer Charles Ian Cox (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Leonard Francis Day (26)
• Captain De Jager
• Lieutenant De Klerk
• Second Lieutenant Doble (24)

See all 81 who died on 24 March →

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