Cologne

Date

4 April 1944

Target

Cologne, Germany

Force dispatched

41 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

67 airmen in this archive died on 4 April 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.

• Flight Sergeant William Jeremiah Allen (61)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Preston Aspin (52)
• Flying Officer Frank Barlow
• Leading Aircraftman Edwin Frank Bennett (24)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Norman Bradford (23)
• Leading Aircraftman David Alfred Broomhead (25)
• Flying Officer Norman David Brown (19)
• Flight Sergeant Reginald Ellis Brown (31)
• Sergeant Sidney Chappell (19)
• Sergeant Sidney Claypole (23)
• Flying Officer Stanley William Cross (21)
• Sergeant James Harold Dacre (19)
• Lieutenant Charles Davie
• Flying Officer Harry Galloway Dean (31)
• Flying Officer Robert Wilfred Densham (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Samuel Vincent Dougan (35)
• Sergeant Joseph Ronald Dowling (25)
• Leading Aircraftman Nyal Larue Earl (22)
• Sergeant Dennis Aubrey Essex (27)
• Flight Sergeant Leonard Alfred Everett
• Aircraftman 2nd Class William Foxe (18)
• Sergeant John Archibald Freeman (22)
• Sergeant Frank Gaffney (23)
• Flight Sergeant John Thomas Geoghegan (27)

See all 67 who died on 4 April →

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