Cologne

Date

10 October 1944

Target

Cologne, Germany

Force dispatched

49 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

29 airmen in this archive died on 10 October 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.

• Flying Officer Ross Wellington Akey
• Warrant Officer John Charles Bates (23)
• Pilot Officer John Blair
• Flight Sergeant William Thomas Borrowman (23)
• Flying Officer Laurence Emmett Cameron (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Richard Alvin Campbell (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Ian Mackenzie Duff (29)
• Warrant Officer Class I Joseph Emile Armand Gauthier (24)
• Sergeant Clifford Barton Greer (20)
• Warrant Officer Stewart Alfred Hamilton (20)
• Flying Officer Arthur James Horrell (24)
• Sergeant Horace Roger Latham (19)
• Pilot Officer Donald Kenneth Irvine Macnicol (20)
• Flying Officer John Lillie Marshall (29)
• Aircraftman 1st Class George Mason (23)
• Squadron Leader George Dixon Matthews (30)
• Flying Officer Thomas Norman McNulty (25)
• Lieutenant Medalie (23)
• Flying Officer Eric John Mish (52)
• Flight Lieutenant Alan Wallace Campbell Morrison (31)
• Flying Officer William Leslie Morrison (30)
• Flying Officer Louis Paul Emile Piche (33)
• Flight Sergeant William Francis Quinlan (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Gordon Frank Rogers (24)

See all 29 who died on 10 October →

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