Berlin

Date

27 March 1945

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

117 aircraft

Aircraft lost

4

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

32 airmen in this archive died on 27 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.

• Leading Aircraftman Frederick Baldwin
• Flying Officer Robert Samuel Bellis (20)
• Wing Commander William Hugh Biddell
• Flight Lieutenant David Buchanan (29)
• Flying Officer Ross Hugh Cameron (24)
• Flight Sergeant John Chalmers (29)
• Pilot Officer James Stewart Davison (24)
• Flight Sergeant John Alfred Day (20)
• Air Marshal Sir Peter Roy Maxwell Drummond (50)
• Flying Officer William Edmondson
• Flying Officer Maurice George Gant (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Hector Roy Hannaford (27)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Lyle William Hodges (32)
• Flying Officer Gordon David Hudson (26)
• Flying Officer Thomas McLaren Lincoln (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Ulrick Sinclair Mackay (40)
• Flying Officer Frederick John Manning (34)
• Corporal Leonard McKeon (26)
• Flying Officer Victor Jack Mortensen (24)
• Flying Officer John William Newman
• Flight Sergeant Seaton George Redknap (27)
• Flying Officer Bruce Norman Reed
• Warrant Officer Arthur David Rees (35)
• Flying Officer McKenzie Reeves (25)

See all 32 who died on 27 March →

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