Berlin

Date

20 May 1943

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

23 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

131 airmen in this archive died on 20 May 1943 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.

• Sergeant Charles Corringham Adams (21)
• Leading Aircraftman George Charles Adams (30)
• Sergeant James (jimmy) Arkle (21)
• Sergeant James Ashton (24)
• Flight Lieutenant James Edward Atkins
• Flight Sergeant Thomas William Vincent Atkins-tallentire (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry Ernest Baker (21)
• Squadron Leader Edgar Valetta Bashford (56)
• Sergeant Herbert Bassnett (28)
• Warrant Officer Ray John Baxter (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Roderick Russell Herbert Bowes (27)
• Flight Sergeant Terence Joseph Brassel (20)
• Sergeant Alfred Brown
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Burchard (20)
• Flight Sergeant Archibald Campbell (29)
• Sergeant Albert Camps
• Sergeant William Victor Chambers (22)
• Corporal Alan Vivien Samuel Chapman (22)
• Sergeant Thomas Arnold Chapman (22)
• Sergeant Thomas Brian Clarke
• Flying Officer Alastair Grant Cleary (21)
• Flying Officer William Robert Cleland (34)
• Flying Officer Marshall Bailey Collings (21)
• Sergeant George Thomas Cook (22)

See all 131 who died on 20 May →

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