Berlin

Date

11 November 1943

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

45 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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

98 airmen in this archive died on 11 November 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.

• Flight Sergeant Lionel Maxwell Amesbury (25)
• Flying Officer Walter Gray Arnold (25)
• Sergeant John Critchley Arrowsmith (21)
• Sergeant Leslie Austin (20)
• Flight Sergeant John Herbert Barkwell (19)
• Pilot Officer Reginald Lionel Barton-smith (22)
• Sergeant Harold Royston Batten
• Warrant Officer Class II Frank George Bell (24)
• Warrant Officer Alan Berry (24)
• Sergeant James Walter Biscoe (28)
• Flying Officer David Michael Blair (22)
• Flying Officer Roland Henry Browne
• Corporal Alfred John Arthur Burrows (33)
• Sergeant Denis George Button (20)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Hugh Campbell (25)
• Flight Lieutenant John Muir Candlish (25)
• Sergeant Ronald Cotterill (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Ian Harper Courtney
• Sergeant John Robert Cowen (22)
• Sergeant Gerald Norman Cox (22)
• Leading Aircraftman John Joseph Crockett (24)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Davies
• Flying Officer Leonard Douglas Dingley (24)
• Sergeant Percival Ivor Dursley (21)

See all 98 who died on 11 November →

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