Cologne

Date

29 October 1944

Target

Cologne, Germany

Force dispatched

114 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

51 airmen in this archive died on 29 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.

• Sergeant Frederick William Anstey (21)
• Flight Sergeant Francis Frederick Austerberry (31)
• Flight Sergeant William Ronald Barber (20)
• Sergeant Walter James Bird (32)
• Flying Officer Richard Francis Boyce (21)
• Warrant Officer John Joseph Boyle (22)
• Corporal Orran Willard Carey (23)
• Leading Aircraftman George Henry Carroll (25)
• Pilot Officer Bruce Charles Chinnery (23)
• Flying Officer David Campbell Church (20)
• Flight Sergeant James Edward Cook (24)
• Flying Officer Lawrence Furby Croft (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Alan Arthur Cropley (23)
• Warrant Officer Stuart Hugh Davidson (23)
• Flying Officer La Verne John Dick (28)
• Warrant Officer Harold Murray Earle (34)
• Leading Aircraftman James Forrest (28)
• Sergeant Ronald Ellis Fox (20)
• Major Sigmund Fuchs
• Major Carl Frederick Geere (27)
• Flying Officer James David Nicol Gillingham (28)
• Flying Officer William Glendinning (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Theodore Goldsmith (21)
• Flying Officer Alan Lindsay Harrison (29)

See all 51 who died on 29 October →

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