Cologne

Date

16 October 1944

Target

Cologne, Germany

Force dispatched

39 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

64 airmen in this archive died on 16 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.

• Lieutenant Ackerman (24)
• Warrant Officer Class I Andrews
• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Edgar Bastarache (20)
• Flying Officer Daniel Charles Bermingham (22)
• Lieutenant Botha (31)
• Warrant Officer Class I Botha (23)
• Squadron Leader Norman Leslie Bourke (27)
• Leading Aircraftman William Morley Brotherston (22)
• Flying Officer Percy John Castle (29)
• Pilot Officer Henry Holmes Chapman (28)
• Sergeant Ronald Cochrane
• Lieutenant Dennis Osborne Cullingworth (27)
• Pilot Officer John Frederick Dowding (17)
• Flying Officer Keith Russell Dumas (24)
• Flying Officer Norman Charles Dumont (20)
• Warrant Officer Douglas James Edmiston (23)
• Flying Officer Sydney James Emery (28)
• Flight Lieutenant Daniel John Falconer (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Gilles Arthur Ferron
• Sergeant John Richard Wharton Forshaw
• Lieutenant Franklin
• Squadron Leader Robert Harcourt Franklin (28)
• Sergeant Henry Gowans
• Flying Officer Wilfred Pearson Heatley (32)

See all 64 who died on 16 October →

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