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#Name*First NamesTitleRankRAF Equivalent RankService No.BornNationalityRoleAwardsAir ForceCommandUnitDateofIncident *See NoteAircraftTypeSerialCodeVictories (Fighters)BaseTimeMission                        Incident                        FateCommemoratedPhoto (Click to Expand)Referring Database                        Notes                        Links/Archive Reports
2501 BergelinRupert WilliamFlight Sergeant428900AustraliaRAAF460Sqn RAAF
1944-10-23RAAF Honour Roll
2502 BergeonJLieutenantFFAFBomber Command347Sqn Free French
1944-10-28HalifaxIIINA512L8-Elvington1342Koln
2503 BergerJeffreyPilot Officer1393649Probably born 1922 at EdmontonBritishNavigatorRAVFRBomber Command625Sqn
1944-01-27LancasterIIIND461CF-WRAF Kelstern, Lincolnshire1708BerlinCrashed at Gournay-en-Bray {Seine-Maritime}PoW No. 971 Camp: Stalag Koperikus at Thorn (now Toruń) in Poland - 357 Read Archive Report
2504 BergeronJohn AlbertSergeantJ/87384Age 19CanadaAir/GnrRCAFBomber Command408Sqn RCAF
1944-06-12LancasterIIDS688EQ-RRAF Linton on Ouse, North Yorkshire2207CambraiSee archive report for further detailsKilledCanada Cemetery Tilloy-les-Cambrai, France. Plot 2, Row G, Grave 4
Courtesy John Jones

Paradie Archive DatabaseSon of Adelard Joseph and Aimiee Margaret (nee Labranche) Bergeron of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
2505 BerginJoseph StanleyFlight Sergeant4025331911New ZealanderNavigator RNZAFBomber Command15Sqn
1944-01-21LancasterIW4852LS-BMildenhall2020MagdeburgAt 2310 hrs Hptm Manfred Meurer Stab I/NJG1 collided with the Lancaster W4852 LS-B roughly 20 kilometres East of Magdeburg. His aircraft He 219 A-0 (Werknummer 190070) "G9+BB" crashed and Hptm Meurer, his radar operator Ofw Gerhard Scheibe, the first radio operator of the night fighter force to have received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, and all seven members of the Lancaster crew, were in killed in actionKilledRunnymede Memorial Panel 263On 31 Jan 1944 Hptm Meurer was given a military funeral at Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg. German documents revealed that the a/c had crashed near the village of Wormlitz in the Jericho district and that the bodies of Flt.Sgt. Jager, Flt.Sgt. Butler, Flt.Sgt. Proteous and Sgt. Summers together with 3 who could not be identified. The records did not indicate the place of burial. A thorough search of the Jericho district was made but the graves of the crew could not be found. It was subsequently recorded that they had no known grave

Son of Joseph and Rubina Bergin, of Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand
2506 BerglandNorvalPilot Officerj/87767Air/BmrRCAFBomber Command44Sqn
1944-02-24LancasterIIIND525KM-QRAF Dunholme Lodge1824Schweinfurt Contact us - we do have details of his loss KilledCholoy War Cemetery France Grave 3.A.5.Paradie Archive Database
2507 BergmannCharles H CaptainO-380538USAPilotUSAAF361st Fighter Group374th Fighter Squadron
1944-06-04P-47 Thunderbolt0.5 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
2508 BergmannCharles H CaptainO-380538USAPilotUSAAF361st Fighter Group374th Fighter Squadron
1944-06-08P-47 Thunderbolt1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
2509 BergnerMieczysław JózefPorucznik NawigFlying OfficerP-2097 / 781257Born 15 September 1921 Lwów (Age 22 when killed)PolandNavigatorVirtuti Militari

Krzyż Walecznych (x4)

Medal Lotniczy (x3)

DFM
PAFBomber Command300 Sqn (Polish)
1944-05-22Avro LancasterlllLM487BH:JRAF Faldingworth22:47DortmundSee archive report for detailsKilled in Action, on Operational FlightPAF Memorial, Northolt, Reichswald Forest War Cemetery - Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Plot II Row E Grave 6

Archiwum Polish Database
2510 BergquistBertil WilfredFlight SergeantJ/87476Air/GnrRCAFBomber Command514Sqn
1944-02-24LancasterIIDS785JI-DRAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire2057Schweinfurt See archive report for further information KilledDurnbach War Cemetery. Grave 11.J.6Paradie Archive Database Read Archive Report
2511 BerkeleyN GFlying OfficerBomber Command115Sqn
1944-08-27LancasterIIIPB131KO-WWitchford2108StettinKilledPoznan Old Garrison Cemetery Poland
2512 BerkeryGeorge RobertPilot Officer Flight EngineerC/85532RCAFBomber Command405Sqn RCAF
1944-04-22LancasterIIIJB684LQ-UGransden Lodge2223LaonCrashed Conde-sur-Aisne {Aisne}KilledConde-sur-Aisne Communal Cemetery Grave Coll. Grave 4-5 Paradie Archive DatabaseRead Archive Report
2513 BerkleyRobert ErnestFlying Officer401410AustraliaRAAF38Sqn RAF
1944-01-06RAAF Honour Roll
2514 BerkshireRobert H 1st LtO-732133USAPilotUSAAF352nd Fighter Group487th Fighter Squadron
1944-05-27P-47 Thunderbolt2 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
2515 BerkshireRobert H 1st LtO-732133USAPilotUSAAF352nd Fighter Group487th Fighter Squadron
1944-05-30P-47 Thunderbolt2 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
2516 BerlinAlpheus F 1st LtO-673978USAPilotUSAAF324th Fighter Group314th Fighter Squadron
1944-12-25P-47 Thunderbolt0.25 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
2517 BerlinguetteJoseph Jean Paul OsiasSergeantR/219122CanadaCanadianNavigatorRCAFBomber Command22 OTU (RAF)1944-12-05WellingtonXNC967RAF Wellesbourne Mountford, WarwickshireBombingCrashed near Inwardleigh, Devon, UKKilledCommemorated Brookwood Military Cemetery, 51. I. 4. United Kingdom.Accident report
2518 BermanMilton R 1st LtO-677963USAPilotUSAAF50th Fighter Group81st Fighter Squadron
1944-07-30P-47 Thunderbolt1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
2519 BerminghamD CFlying OfficerRCAFBomber Command207Sqn
1944-10-15LancasterING143EM-RSpilsby1839GardeningKilledRunnymede Paradie Archive Database
2520 BernagozziLibero John ‘Libby’ Staff SergeantSergeant32657833 AmericanBall Turret GunnerUSAAF8th Air Force 418th Bombardment Squadron (H), 100th Bombardment Group (H) 1944-02-04 B-17 Rosie’s Riveters/ Satcha Lass F42-30758LD:W Thorpe Abbot (Station #139), Norfolk, England Frankfurt (Mission #208), Germany See Archive report for detailsPoW, Stalag Luft 4
2521 BernaldoJFlight SergeantRAAFBomber Command103Sqn
1944-04-09LancasterIIIND420PM-GElsham Wolds2118GardeningCrashed Brande DenmarkKilledEsbjerg (Fourfelt) Cemetery Denmark
2522 BernaldoJack Flight Sergeant410115AustraliaRAAF103Sqn RAF
1944-04-10RAAF Honour Roll
2523 BernallGeorge WilliamStaff Sergeant39903333AmericanTail GunnerUSAAF15th Air Force342nd Bomber Squadron (97th Bombardment Group (H))1944-07-19B-17G44-6188Amendola Air Base, Foggia, ItalyMünchen (Munich), GermanySee Archive report for detailsPoW, Stalag Luft 4
2524 BernardWFlight SergeantBomber Command77Sqn
1944-12-06HalifaxIIIMZ428KN-BFull Sutton1810osnabruckKilledRunnymede
2525 BernardSweet 1st LtO-811975USAPilotUSAAF406th Fighter Group514th Fighter Squadron
1944-07-25P-47 Thunderbolt`1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
2526 BernaskiL JFlying OfficerRCAFBomber Command626Sqn
1944-06-30LancasterIME774UM-L2Wickenby2155VierzonKilledRunnymede Paradie Archive Database
2527 BernhardtDouglas PaulSergeantR/183965Age 19CanadaAir GunnerRCAFBomber Command622Sqn
1944-05-31LancasterILL782GI-HRAF Mildenhall, Suffolk2341TrappesSee archive report for further brief detailsKilledPoingy-la-Foret Communal Cemetery. Joint grave

Courtesy Oleg Marin

Paradie Archive DatabaseSon of Oscar George and Verda V. Harwood Bernhardt, of Collingwood, Ontario, Canada. A memorial to him been erected in front of the Town Hall of Poigny-la-Forêt.
2528 BernieWalter BurfordPilot Officer428901AustraliaRAAF8 Communication Unit Goodenough Is1944-10-25RAAF Honour Roll
2529 BernierJoseph Wilfrid Laurier FernandoFlying OfficerJ/29412CanadianNavigatorDFC
RCAFBomber Command425Sqn RCAF
1944-12-17HalifaxIIIMZ538KW-VTholthorpe02:22DuisburgInexplicably crashed from an altitude of approximatly 500 feet shortly after a normal take offKilledHarrogate (Stonefall) Cemetery, Sec. G. Row D. Grave 10. United Kingdom
Accident report
2530 BernierJ WFlying OfficerBomber Command426Sqn RCAF
1944-05-31HalifaxIIILK880OW-CLinton on Ouse2208Au FevreCrashed at base on return
2531 BernierC LFlight SergeantBomber Command427Sqn RCAF
1944-01-20HalifaxVLL191ZL-NLeeming1610BerlinCrashed at Westwick Norfolk on return
2532 BernierHubert Roland BernierFlying OfficerJ/18676CanadianPilotRCAF2 TAF440Sqn RCAF
1944-06-24TyphoonIbMN457I8-RRAF Hurn21:50Armed recceTaxied into a parked aircraft damaging bothUninjuredAccident report
2533 BernierWilliam Daniel1st LtO-670067Born Lewis and Clark County, Montana USA November 11, 1915USABombardierUSAAF90th Bomber Group321st Bomber Squadron Heavy
1944-04-10B-24D Liberator#42-41188 'Hot Garters'Nazdab Air Base, Papua New GuineaAttack AA site Hansa Bay, Papua New GuineaShot down by AA fire over Madang. Papua New GuineaKilledAugusta, Montana USA
pacificwrecks.comFour of the 12-member crew exited the aircraft after it had been hit and those captured by the Japanese were murdered. Donald Crotteau was one of the men who bailed out, along with fellow crew members Hyler and Handleman. They were likely injured and managed to evade capture for two days. On April 12, 1944, however, they were captured and ultimately were murdered or died of their injuries. The other crew members went down with the plane and the entire crew was officially declared dead the day of the mission. Donald Greenman was another of the four who bailed out. He was likely captured on April 10, 1944 by a Japanese Army patrol sent to investigate a report of an enemy aircraft being shot down. Japanese records say a patrol captured an 'American pilot' (likely Greenman) and the next day took him to Diri and later he was walked or transported to Hansa Bay. The Japanese report says on April 16, 1944 four PoWs from the crash were transported to Bogia. According to the Japanese, two of the prisoners - Greenman and Handleman - 'died on route'. Possibly, this was a Japanese euphemism meaning they were murdered or otherwise killed. The fact is when Leading Private Oshina returned to Hansa Bay he had only two prisoners with him and Greenman was not one of them. William Hyler was reportedly captured by Japanese troops and murdered about 2 weeks later. Paulsen's remains were recovered and identified by American authorities on July 16, 2014 and he and the others identified were interred on March 18, 2015 at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honours.
2534 BernoskeRobert 1st LtO-525128USAPilotUSAAF65th Fighter Wing357th Fighter Squadron
1944-06-06P-51 Mustang1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
2535 BernykMichaelFlying OfficerJ/3874024 August 1923CanadianNavigatorRCAFBomber Command166Sqn
1944-12-31LancasterIME647AS-JKirmington1510Osterfeld Crashed at Eygelshoven {Limburg} KilledNederweert War Cemetery IV.A.5Paradie Archive DatabaseMost if not all were brought to Margraten in Holland for Burial, but their graves are now at Nederweert War Cemetery

Son of William and Mary Bernyk, of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
2536 BernykV HWarrant Officer Class 2RCAFBomber Command626Sqn
1944-04-24LancasterIIIDV244UM-L2Wickenby2132KarlsruheCrashed PlottersdorfKilledDurnbach War CemeteryParadie Archive Database
2537 BerrettReginald HughesSergeant1890825Flight EngineerRAFBomber Command138Sqn (Special)
1944-11-26StirlingIVLK151NF-ETempsford2000SOE Crashed off Assens. He was lost whilst on an operation to resupply members of the Danish Resistance Movement. KilledRunnymede The Stirling took off on a mission to drop supplies to the Danish resistance at drop zone Tablejam 69 with the Danish name Rosalie on the island of Fyn. The position of the drop zone was 551747N 100600E and was found 13 km ENE of Assens and 2 km N of Glamsbjerg. The Stirling arrived over the drop zone at 23:25 hours and dropped its load on first pass. The reception committee from Odense received 18 containers and one package containing a Eureka. After this nothing was heard from the Stirling. The German War Diary reports: Kriegstagesbuch Des Kommandant im Abschnitt Südjülland for the night of 26 / 27 November 1944. 22:41 to 00:35: Flakalarm bef. V. Ugruko. Ca 6 feindliche Flugzeuge von W und O kommend, durchflogen mit verschiedenen kursen den Flakbereich mit flughöhen von 100,200 und 400 m. 2 Flugzeuge wurden von dem leichten Flakzeug Blaavand 6./204 mit 38 Schuss 2 cm beschossen. Erfolge wurden nicht beobachtet. Bei den Flugzeugen handelte es sich 4 mot. Störflugzeuge. The Stirling could well be one of the aircrafts reported to have been shot at by light flak from Blaavand. If so, it most probably crashed into the North Sea.
2538 BerrieDSergeantBomber Command300Sqn Polish
1944-07-24LancasterIIIND984BH-PFaldingworth2136StuttgartCrashed at OchsenbachPoW
2539 BerriganLeonard ThomasFlight LieutenantJ1689824th December 1914 in Dunedin, Clyde River, Prince Edward IslandCanadianAir Gunner (Mid Upper)DFC

RCAFBomber Command7Sqn
1944-03-24LancasterIIIND581MG:MRAF Oakington18:42BerlinSee archive report for detailsMiARunnymede Memorial, Panel 244Paradie Archive Database
2540 BerringtonJohn RaynorFlying Officer160000Age 21RhodesiaPilotRAFVRBomber Command44Sqn
1944-03-15LancasterIIIND576KM-MRAF Dunholme Lodge1931StuttgartKilledDurnbach War Cemetery. Grave 4.E.26
Also remembered on St. George's College War Memorial, Harare, Rhodesia. Born on the 18th December 1944. From Rhodesia, South Africa. A very close friend of F.O. Fynn and on his first operational forte as 2nd dickie before he crewed up.
2541 BerryErnestSergeant1133453PilotRAFVRBomber Command626Sqn
1944-01-01LancasterIIIDV190UM-B2RAF Wickenby, Lincolnshire.0016.BerlinCrashed at Gardelegen, GermanyKilledBerlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery. Grave 6.F.2 Read Archive Report
2542 BerryJ L PSergeantRCAFBomber Command424Sqn RCAF
1944-03-30HalifaxIIILV944QB-USkipton on Swale2159NurnbergCrashed FalkensteinKilledDurnbach War CemeteryParadie Archive Database
2543 BerryGordon HewittFlight SergeantR114954CanadianBomb AimerRCAFBomber Command578 Sqn
1944-04-22HalifaxIIIMZ518LK:CBurn22:44DusseldorfMZ518 was claimed by Ofw.Hans Zettel, his 2ns Abschuss, from 2./NJG6 over Eppinghoven, W. Dinstaken at 5.000 m at 01:38 hrs. Victory confirmed 08.09.1944. (Nachtjagd Combat Archive (16 March 1944 - 11 May 1944) Part 2 - Theo Boiten)PoW No. 3568, Stalag 357Paradie Archive DatabaseCommissioned and promoted to Plt Off whilst as a PoW
2544 BerryG WFlight SergeantRCAFBomber Command578Sqn
1944-03-13HalifaxIIILK756LK-JBurn2219le MansCrashed near Selby Paradie Archive Database
2545 BerryAdam BarrFlying OfficerJ/27466CanadaRCAFBomber Command9Sqn
1944-06-21LancasterIME704WS-BBardney2306Scholven-BuerShot down by nightfighter. Abandoned and crashed at Ede {Gelderland}. Crashed near railwaystation 'De Klomp', BuurtsteegPoW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and BelariaParadie Archive DatabaseOutward-bound, the aircraft was intercepted by Hauptmann Ernst-Wilhelm Modrow & Unteroffizier Erich Schneider of the 1./NJG 1, who had taken off from Venlo airfield at 00:43 hrs in Heinkel He 219 A-0 G9+AH. The crew caught the Lancaster at 20,000 feet. The aircraft was abandoned and came down at De Klomp (Buurtsteeg). Those who died are buried in various Cemeteries. Sgt Redshaw RCAF was 18 years of age and was amongst the youngest Canadians killed in Bomber Command in 1944:
2546 BerryKenneth HerbertFlight Lieutenant1409071920PilotDFM

RAFVRBomber Command103 Sqn
1944-02-15LancasterIIIND363PM-AElsham Wolds 1710Berlinlaim by Lt Kurt Matzak 12/NJG1 - Waddenzee East of Texel (Lowe): 6,400m at 22:50. (Nachtjagd Combat Archives 1944 Part 1 - Theo Boiten) Crashed into the Waddenzee East of TexelKilledTexel (Den Burg) General Cemetery Plot K Row 7 Grave 148Flt Lt Berry was awarded an immediate DFM whilst a Sgt with 103 Sqn. Gazetted 12 Feb 1943. Citation: "This airman has completed many operational missions and has invariably pressed home - his attacks with great determination On one occasion, when attacking Kiel, his aircraft was hit and damaged by anti-aircraft fire Despite this, Sergeant Berry displayed great persistence and bombed his objective successfully On another occasion he displayed commendable skill and initiative during a flight to Turin In a recent attack on Essen, Sergeant Berry pressed home his attack with great spirit although his aircraft was damaged by opposing fire Throughout his operational career, this airman has set a fine example. This award was very well deserved as that was a hard series of operations at a difficult time for 103 Squadron and Bomber Command. Unusually there is not one early return which is an indication of the determination and fighting spirit of this crew".

Son of Robert Michael Berry, and of Florence Elizabeth Berry, of Walthamstow, Essex
2547 BerryAFlight SergeantBomber Command106Sqn
1944-12-15LancasterIIIND682ZN-KMetheringham.0045.GardeningCrashed in the BalticKilledRunnymede
2548 BerryW CFlight SergeantBomber Command115Sqn
1944-01-14LancasterIIDS720KO-DWitchford1701BraunschweigKilledHannover War Cemetery
2549 BerryW ASergeantBomber Command12Sqn
1944-10-14LancasterINF928PH-SWickenby637DuisburgKilledReichswald Forest War Cemetery
2550 BerryJSergeantBomber Command12Sqn
1944-05-03LancasterIIILM516PH-DWickenby2204Maiily-le-CampCrashed Poivres {Aube}KilledPoivres Churchyard

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