Osnabrück

Date

17 August 1942

Target

Osnabrück

Force dispatched

139 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

142 airmen in this archive died on 17 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.

• Pilot Officer Kivell Harold William Alderton (23)
• Sergeant William Charles Bacon (28)
• Corporal William Amos Banks (56)
• Sergeant Alfred Ronald Beaven (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Karel Becvar
• Sergeant William Beeley (21)
• Sergeant Charles Black (29)
• Pilot Officer Earl Herbert Brown
• Flying Officer John Shirley Bunbury (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Gordon Cragg Burke (21)
• Sergeant Bobbie De Savary Burns (22)
• Corporal Stanley Wallace Butland (33)
• Pilot Officer John Donald Cadell (27)
• Pilot Officer Andre Joseph Emile Gregoire Cantillion (22)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Lawrence Edward Cassidy (21)
• Pilot Officer Richard Albert Castell (19)
• Pilot Officer Kenneth William Clugston (33)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Howard Cobbett
• Sergeant Arthur Collins (30)
• Sergeant William Edwin Collins (22)
• Flight Sergeant Eugene Hastings Connell (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Derrick Frederick Curtis (20)
• Sergeant William Arthur Davis (22)
• Sergeant Walter De Martino (19)

See all 142 who died on 17 August →

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