Cologne

Date

25 September 1943

Target

Cologne, Germany

Force dispatched

18 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

82 airmen in this archive died on 25 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.

• Flight Sergeant David Abercrombie (31)
• Flying Officer John Philip Adam (30)
• Sergeant Albert Victor Andrews (21)
• Lieutenant Bagg
• Flying Officer Richard Harry Mellor Bailey (30)
• Flying Officer Harold Frid Beale (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Nathaniel Ross Beggs (21)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Brigham (21)
• Sergeant Alec Edward Carter (22)
• Flying Officer Francis Joseph Staff Clayden
• Sergeant Leslie Collis (19)
• Wing Commander Charles Stanley Cooper (29)
• Sergeant Gerald Patrick Cormier (21)
• Warrant Officer David Keith Cotterill (21)
• Flight Sergeant Ivor Cotton (31)
• Flying Officer Clifford Lorne Cullen (23)
• Sergeant George Edward Davies
• Pilot Officer Richard Evan Davies (20)
• Flying Officer Mortimer John Dowd
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas Downie (35)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Albert Edwards (22)
• Sergeant Charles Alfred Farrell (20)
• Sergeant Ian Woodman Ferguson (20)
• Sergeant James Munro Mearns Fraser (20)

See all 82 who died on 25 September →

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