Cologne

Date

17 April 1944

Target

Cologne, Germany

Force dispatched

35 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

177 airmen in this archive died on 17 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.

• Flying Officer Lionel Herbert Abbott (26)
• Sergeant Ronald Adams
• Flight Sergeant Jack Arnold Alexander (20)
• Corporal Rowland Allen (35)
• Flight Lieutenant Bruce Wild Andrew
• Leading Aircraftman Edward Gladstone Armstrong (27)
• Sergeant Frederick Thomas George Atkins (20)
• Flying Officer Harold Calven Austen (26)
• Sergeant Alan Dennis Bale (19)
• Sergeant John Faulds Barron (25)
• Flying Officer Arthur Thomas Barton (22)
• Flight Sergeant Dudley Clive Bates (20)
• Warrant Officer Frank Desmond Bell (22)
• Corporal Derek Albert Bird (28)
• Leading Aircraftman John George Blunt (24)
• Flying Officer Edward John Bowers (23)
• Flight Sergeant Malcolm Box (22)
• Lieutenant Brand (20)
• Corporal Neville Francis Brindley (20)
• Warrant Officer Class II James Angus Brown
• Sergeant Owen McDavid Brown (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Peter George Fleming Brown (22)
• Sergeant Reginald John Brown (20)
• Flying Officer Allan Edward Buckley (22)

See all 177 who died on 17 April →

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