Berlin

Date

30 March 1945

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

81 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

71 airmen in this archive died on 30 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.

• Flight Lieutenant Edward Grant Aitchison (26)
• Warrant Officer George Gregory Allman (22)
• Flying Officer Frederick Roy Alty (20)
• Pilot Officer George Anderson
• Flight Lieutenant William James Anderson (26)
• Warrant Officer David Bernard Benson (26)
• Warrant Officer Harry Bliss (25)
• Flying Officer Donald Stuart Maxwell Bowes (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II James Alexander Buzza (24)
• Sergeant William Alfred Byrd (24)
• Pilot Officer Clarence Campbell (25)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Lucien Almasse Campeau (35)
• Flying Officer John Joseph Casey
• Flight Lieutenant Verner Grenville Cave (26)
• Flight Sergeant Eric Chenoweth (20)
• Flight Sergeant Kevin George Clark (20)
• Sergeant Basil Vivian Clinton (22)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Patrick Thomas Connors (20)
• Flight Sergeant Wilfred Ian Davidson (31)
• Flight Lieutenant William George Davis (21)
• Flight Sergeant Colin Delaney (20)
• Flying Officer Patrick Blake Dennison
• Pilot Officer Albert Dorey (27)
• Flying Officer Richard Herbert Fisher (22)

See all 71 who died on 30 March →

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