Cologne
13 October 1944 — Cologne
- Date
- 13 October 1944
- Command
- Bomber Command
- Target
- Cologne, Germany
- Force dispatched
- 57 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
99 airmen in this archive died on 13 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.
- Flight Lieutenant Reginald Major Aldus (29)
- Sergeant George Frederick Jesse Anstee (23)
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Victor Askey (25)
- Warrant Officer Keith Warren Bardsley (22)
- Flying Officer Alexander Barr (24)
- Flying Officer Archie Verdun Batty (29)
- Flying Officer James Daniel Beagley (24)
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Walter Beckingham (20)
- Leading Aircraftman William Whittingham Beddow (21)
- Flying Officer Glenn Crawford Bellamy (26)
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd Douglas Bennett (26)
- Captain L. Von S. Beukes (26)
- Warrant Officer Charles Siel Billington (26)
- Flight Sergeant Blumrick (43)
- Flying Officer Ronald Lionel Lister Bodie (22)
- Pilot Officer Robert Henry Bowen (24)
- Flying Officer Joseph Ross Eugene Brouillette (22)
- Pilot Officer John William Brown (22)
- Sergeant John Bucks
- Flight Sergeant Denis Frederick Buist (23)
- Sergeant Cecil Royston Forster Burnett (24)
- Flying Officer Dell Alfred Butler
- Flight Lieutenant Ray Lloyd Clearwater (32)
- Sergeant Howard Herbert Cleghorne (21)
See all 99 who died on 13 October →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →