Personnel Index - Detail
Name
O'CONNELL
First Names
Richard James
Rank
Sgt
Service
RAF
Service Number
1217981
Crew Position
Air Gunner
Posting In
2/43
Posting Out
5/43
Cemetery
Flew 5 operations with 49SqnSgt O'Connell was killed whilst flying with 44Sqn on a raid to Magdeberg on the 21st January 1944.
He is buried in the Berlin War Cemetery.
Photographed by Dom Howard.
Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses