Berlin

Date

24 November 1944

Command

Bomber Command

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

58 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

30 airmen in this archive died on 24 November 1944 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 Howard John Cook (25)
• Flying Officer Robert William Evans (26)
• Flight Sergeant Douglas Alexander Gunn
• Flying Officer Stanley George Hall (22)
• Flight Lieutenant James Thomas Hardy (22)
• Flying Officer Allan Charles Hirst (22)
• Flying Officer James Douglas Jones (22)
• Flying Officer Ronald Marwood Jones (25)
• Flying Officer George Eugene Langille (22)
• Flying Officer Richard Gerard Mansfield (27)
• Warrant Officer John Leonard Mulhall (21)
• Flight Sergeant John Joseph Murphy (19)
• Pilot Officer John William Lyle Patterson (22)
• Flying Officer John Robert Pollock (20)
• Flying Officer Leslie Gordon Drummond POW (22)
• Pilot Officer John David Richards (33)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Alfred William Ring (23)
• Flying Officer Noel George Hester Spark (36)
• Flight Sergeant Alan Douglas Springett (28)
• Corporal David Gordon Strachan (40)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Bruce Swiney (26)
• Corporal John Joseph Taylor (44)
• Flight Sergeant Leslie Wilfred Toth (27)
• Flying Officer George William Tuck (25)

See all 30 who died on 24 November →

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