Berlin

Date

26 March 1945

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

86 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

40 airmen in this archive died on 26 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 Anthony Harold Bailey (23)
• Flying Officer Robert Samuel Bellis (20)
• Wing Commander William Hugh Biddell
• Flight Lieutenant David Buchanan (29)
• Flying Officer Ross Hugh Cameron (24)
• Flight Sergeant Alexander Peter Campbell
• Flight Sergeant John Chalmers (29)
• Flying Officer Brent Taylor Clarke (23)
• Pilot Officer James Stewart Davison (24)
• Air Marshal Sir Peter Roy Maxwell Drummond (50)
• Flying Officer William Edmondson
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Hyacinthe Ellard (47)
• Flying Officer Maurice George Gant (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Bruce Drysdale Green (21)
• Flying Officer Gordon David Hudson (26)
• Corporal Tom Kitchingham (23)
• Flying Officer Thomas McLaren Lincoln (25)
• Flying Officer Irving Lindzon
• Warrant Officer Lloyd Morrish Loftus (24)
• Flying Officer Alexander Joseph Macdonald (19)
• Flying Officer Frederick John Manning (34)
• Leading Aircraftman John Joseph Lawrence McIntyre (20)
• Flight Sergeant Jack Samuel McIver (19)
• Corporal Leonard McKeon (26)

See all 40 who died on 26 March →

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