Osnabrück

Date

6 October 1942

Target

Osnabrück

Force dispatched

237 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

88 airmen in this archive died on 6 October 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 Robert Lewis Albery (31)
• Flight Sergeant Lawrence Banikhin (23)
• Flight Sergeant Albert Valentine Barkel (30)
• Sergeant Edward Henry Bastow (40)
• Sergeant John Frederick Peter Behn (21)
• Sergeant William John Bowles Bennett (23)
• Sergeant James Bennie
• Leading Aircraftman Cornelius Curran Buckley (22)
• Sergeant John Burke (21)
• Sergeant Philip Bertie Joseph Butcher (22)
• Flight Lieutenant John David Butler (24)
• Leading Aircraftman David James Calder (19)
• Sergeant Richard Carson
• Flight Sergeant Moses Charton (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Roy Alan Frederick Chenery (22)
• Sergeant Albert John Coombes
• Pilot Officer John Edward Corrie
• Flight Sergeant Joseph John Edward Cote (21)
• Sergeant David Lawrence Crowhurst (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Moshe Danino
• Flying Officer Henry John Davidson (27)
• Flying Officer Jack Edmon Delarue (26)
• Sergeant Rupert Frederick Arding Downes (23)
• Flying Officer George Hammond Edgett (28)

See all 88 who died on 6 October →

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