Osnabrück

Date

11 November 1944

Target

Osnabrück

Force dispatched

126 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

51 airmen in this archive died on 11 November 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 Wilton Garnet Armour (22)
• Flying Officer John Albert Baker (27)
• Pilot Officer Brian Kenneth Barstow (22)
• Sergeant Cyril Bayford (28)
• Warrant Officer Richard William Beck (22)
• Sergeant Harry Boardman
• Flying Officer George Daniel Boyd (22)
• Sergeant Earl Douglas Bround (25)
• Lieutenant John R Brydone (22)
• Warrant Officer Gordon Thomas Bulman (28)
• Flight Sergeant Edward George Charman (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Henry Cockbain (24)
• Warrant Officer Class I William John Coward (21)
• Flying Officer Francis Joseph Crowley (23)
• Flying Officer Augustine Frederick Cullington (24)
• Flying Officer Derek Atkinson Ellis (21)
• Aircraftman 1st Class William Stuart Eustace (20)
• Flying Officer Thomas Frank Eyre (22)
• Flying Officer Murray James Feddersen (20)
• Corporal John Ferrie Fenwick
• Flight Sergeant George French (28)
• Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Goodfellow (20)
• Flying Officer Chesley Reginald Grassie
• Warrant Officer Ian Hutchinson Gray (21)

See all 51 who died on 11 November →

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