Oberhausen

Date

4 December 1944

Target

Oberhausen, Germany

Force dispatched

191 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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

104 airmen in this archive died on 4 December 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.

• Pilot Officer Christian Abildgaard (21)
• Flight Sergeant Douglas George Allbon (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Raymond Lloyd Annand-smith (27)
• Flying Officer Philip Peter Awad (21)
• Flight Sergeant Robert James Barr (19)
• Flight Sergeant Arie Gordon Baxter (21)
• Lieutenant Philip August Becker
• Sergeant Joseph Jean Paul Osias Berlinguette (20)
• Pilot Officer Albert Louis Bonany
• Flying Officer Joseph Rufin Boudreau
• Sergeant Leonard Jack Bowick (20)
• Warrant Officer James Kemble Brill (24)
• Flying Officer Eric Ivor Britton (25)
• Flight Sergeant John Lane Brosnan (20)
• Flying Officer Gordon Roch Campbell (25)
• Sergeant William McDonald Campbell (33)
• Flying Officer Albert Victor Carter (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Maxwell Harold Cassidy (19)
• Flying Officer Stanley Victor Chambers
• Sergeant George Albert Chevrier (19)
• Flight Sergeant William Michael Ching (20)
• Pilot Officer Arthur Henry Clarke (31)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Roy Collier (24)
• Sergeant Ernest Newton Cook (37)

See all 104 who died on 4 December →

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