Osnabrück

Date

9 August 1942

Target

Osnabrück

Force dispatched

192 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

92 airmen in this archive died on 9 August 1942 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.

• Flying Officer Sydney Ernest Andrews
• Flight Sergeant George Robert Ash
• Aircraftman 1st Class Willie Ashton (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Albert Edgar Ayling (19)
• Flight Lieutenant David John Bain (26)
• Sergeant Ronald Kenneth Bannear (23)
• Sergeant Norman Victor Bickerton (20)
• Sergeant Robert Duff Bijur
• Warrant Officer Ernest William Bristow (26)
• Pilot Officer John Alan Bursill (25)
• Pilot Officer Thomas McWhirter Calderwood (22)
• Sergeant Leslie Algernon Callow (22)
• Pilot Officer David Farquhar Capel (22)
• Pilot Officer Philip William Carr (21)
• Flight Sergeant Harold Marcus Carter (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Geoffrey George Chapman (19)
• Sergeant Maurice Collins (26)
• Sergeant Arnold William Cooke (25)
• Corporal Joseph Kenneth Croft (26)
• Warrant Officer Nicholas Dan (23)
• Lieutenant Davison (37)
• Flying Officer Charles John Dumas (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Victor Ronald Egginton (30)
• Flight Sergeant James Alexander Finlay (29)

See all 92 who died on 9 August →

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