Operation Millennium
30 May 1942 — Cologne
- Date
- 30 May 1942
- Target
- Cologne, Germany
- Force dispatched
- 1,047 aircraft
- Aircraft lost
- 41
Narrative
The first Thousand Bomber Raid, mounted by Air Marshal Arthur Harris to demonstrate the strategic potential of Bomber Command. Cologne suffered extensive damage; 41 aircraft were lost.
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
298 airmen in this archive died on 30 May 1942 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 Kenneth Aird (33)
- Sergeant Thomas Harold Allen (25)
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Willcox Allen (27)
- Pilot Officer John Dalrymple Anderson
- Sergeant Frederick Armstrong (21)
- Sergeant Robert Alfred Armstrong (23)
- Sergeant William Harry Arnold (22)
- Sergeant Maurice Samuel Ash (29)
- Pilot Officer Francis Henry John Ashton
- Pilot Officer Douglas Claude August (22)
- Pilot Officer John Douglas Norman Bain
- Flight Sergeant David Monroe Baird (20)
- Sergeant Douglas Wilson Baird (21)
- Flight Sergeant Bernard George Payn Balleine (26)
- Flight Sergeant Philip Grimshaw Barclay (21)
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Frank Barker (23)
- Flight Sergeant Donald Gladstone Barrie (21)
- Flight Lieutenant Hector Austin Charles Batten
- Sergeant Leonard Beck (27)
- Sergeant Alan Mowlem Bee (20)
- Sergeant John Charles Bennett (27)
- Sergeant Charles Albert Blackwell (25)
- Flying Officer Harold Roger Blake (24)
- Flight Sergeant David Block (30)