Berlin

Date

20 October 1943

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

42 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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

241 airmen in this archive died on 20 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.

• Flight Lieutenant John Thomas Anderson (26)
• Flying Officer Frank George Andrews (20)
• Sergeant Dennis Walter Angell (20)
• Flight Sergeant Michael Antifaev
• Flight Sergeant Stanley Tallintire Athey (21)
• Sergeant James Edward Bacon (22)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class James Baines (34)
• Flying Officer Ronald Lavender Baker (23)
• Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Alexander Barabonoff (20)
• Sergeant Edward Frederick Maurice Barham
• Sergeant Donald Bartley (21)
• Flying Officer Edwin Arthur Bater
• Sergeant Gilbert Herbert McDonald Batten
• Corporal Harold David Beattie (25)
• Pilot Officer Stanley John Bell (35)
• Leading Aircraftman Leslie Montague Bennett (25)
• Sergeant Henry James Bird (19)
• Sergeant Edward James Boardman (20)
• Flying Officer Douglas James Boston (23)
• Sergeant William George Bougourd (29)
• Flight Sergeant Albert Charles Branch (21)
• Aircraftman 1st Class H. H. (michael) Brooks (35)
• Flying Officer Frederick William Brown (29)
• Warrant Officer Class II Ernest Charles Brunet

See all 241 who died on 20 October →

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