Osnabrück
12 April 1944 — Osnabrück
- Date
- 12 April 1944
- Command
- Bomber Command
- Target
- Osnabrück
- Force dispatched
- 21 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
115 airmen in this archive died on 12 April 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.
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Edward Allen
- Flying Officer John Alfred Amy (26)
- Sergeant Peter Edward Andrews (22)
- Sergeant Georges Edouard Louis Leon Backaert
- Flight Sergeant Alec David Barnett (22)
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Horace Edwin Barnett (41)
- Pilot Officer David Gordon Bell (25)
- Lieutenant Charles Blanckenberg (23)
- Pupil Pilot David Dunleigh Bowen (19)
- Flight Sergeant Colin Baxter Bowling (32)
- Flying Officer Sydney Brookes (31)
- Flight Sergeant Huia Nelson Burns (22)
- Flying Officer Peter Ross Butler (20)
- Flight Sergeant William Wright Campbell
- Flight Sergeant Robert Pollock Carmichael (23)
- Pilot Officer Arthur Kenneth Clarke (22)
- Sergeant Herbert Duncan Collershaw
- Sergeant Frank Conroy (21)
- Pilot Officer Francis Edward Cranch (31)
- Sergeant Allan Crook (21)
- Sergeant Charles Hamilton Crosbie (28)
- Flying Officer Raymond Jack Crossfield (22)
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Earle Cullen (23)
- Flight Sergeant Edward Daniels (21)
See all 115 who died on 12 April →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →