Cologne

Date

4 September 1943

Target

Cologne, Germany

Force dispatched

46 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

215 airmen in this archive died on 4 September 1943 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 Thomas Hessey Allanson (26)
• Flight Sergeant David William Anderson (22)
• Flying Officer Robert Barclay Anderson (29)
• Flight Sergeant Cyril Eugene Ashworth
• Corporal Ronald Hayden Bailey (23)
• Sergeant Percy Barnsley (22)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Francis George Barrell (18)
• Flight Sergeant Albert Beckett (22)
• Sergeant Anthony Richard Duncan Bedbrook
• Flight Sergeant Norman Edwin Bellman (31)
• Sergeant Robert Edward Belton (24)
• Flying Officer Victor Edward Bill
• Flying Officer Raymond Thomas James Bilney (31)
• Sergeant Wallace John Robert Blakeley (20)
• Lieutenant Boyer (21)
• Flying Officer Gilbert Stanley Bray (29)
• Sergeant Leonard Sidney Breley (25)
• Sergeant Kenneth Ernest Bright (26)
• Flight Sergeant John Livingstone Brooks (20)
• Flying Officer Frederick Timothy Brosnahan (25)
• Sergeant George Banks Buchan (29)
• Flight Sergeant Ernest Middleton Buckby (19)
• Flight Lieutenant John Morton Buckle (40)
• Sergeant Neville Edward Burgess (22)

See all 215 who died on 4 September →

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