DAMBUSTERS Hosie, Bruce James

John Robertson

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Staff member
  • SURNAME
Hosie
  • FORENAME
Bruce James
  • UNIT
617 Squadron,R.N.Z.A.F.
  • RANK
Flying Officer
  • NUMBER
412882
  • DATE OF DEATH
7th October 1944
  • AGE
21
  • GRAVESITE
Choloy War Cemetery,France 4.B.8
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
son of Walter and Rachel Hosie,Manaia,Taranaki,New Zealand
75 Squadron
1665 HCU
617 Squadron
77th operation
749 flying hours
w.op/air gunner
Lancaster NG180
Kembs Dam,River Rhine,Germany
hit by flak and crashed landed River Rhine near Chalampe,Haut-Rhin,France
POW but shot by Germans and body thrown in River Rhine - recovered
 

DATE OF DEATH:

07-Oct-1944
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