Berlin

Date

17 October 1943

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

62 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

187 airmen in this archive died on 17 October 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.

• Leading Aircraftman Fredric Charles Addis-bennett (27)
• Sergeant Sidney Allen (21)
• Sergeant Harry Austin (19)
• Pilot Officer Jacobus Adriaan Johannes Baard (22)
• Flying Officer Ronald Sidney Ball (21)
• Flying Officer George Graham Banks (21)
• Sergeant Stanley George Barlegs (21)
• Warrant Officer John William Clarence Barnard (33)
• Leading Aircraftman George Barnett
• Aircraftman 1st Class John Joseph Barrett (38)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert John Bateman (34)
• Sergeant Frederick George Beardwell (35)
• Flight Sergeant Arturo Beaumont
• Sergeant Norman Beer
• Sergeant Tom Bell
• Sergeant Ernest Graham Berry
• Sergeant Arthur Edward Bertram (19)
• Flying Officer Gordon William Bigmore (21)
• Sergeant John Edward Henry Bird (21)
• Wing Commander Arthur Samuel Barton Blomfield (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Harold William Booker (20)
• Sergeant Frederick Leonard Bousher (21)
• Sergeant Kenneth Lindon Brindley (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Roy Brown (21)

See all 187 who died on 17 October →

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