Cologne

Date

18 September 1943

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

88 airmen in this archive died on 18 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.

• Aircraftman 1st Class William Ralph Alder (29)
• Flight Sergeant Titus Courlander Anderson (23)
• Warrant Officer Class II John Haythornthwaite Bateman (20)
• Warrant Officer Alfred Robert William Bayman (23)
• Flying Officer David Beeley (23)
• Warrant Officer Class II Joseph George Louis Boisvert
• Flying Officer Geoffrey William Bond (20)
• Sergeant Jack Stanley Broad
• Warrant Officer Class I Wilfred David Brown
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Gerard Bruijne (25)
• Group Captain Walter Donald Butler (37)
• Flying Officer John James Cain (24)
• Sergeant Patrick Blair Cameron (22)
• Leading Aircraftman John Campbell (20)
• Lieutenant Cheesman (21)
• Pilot Officer Ronald Lester Church
• Warrant Officer Gordon Walter Clarke (22)
• Sergeant Thomas Clelland (19)
• Sergeant Donald Herbert Collings (21)
• Pilot Officer Peter Raymond Colls (22)
• Sergeant Edward Cook (20)
• Sergeant Edgar Jack Cooke
• Sergeant William Kirkland Craig (22)
• Sergeant John Arthur Crudgington (20)

See all 88 who died on 18 September →

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