Cologne

Date

25 April 1944

Target

Cologne, Germany

Force dispatched

29 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

291 airmen in this archive died on 25 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 Daniel Gilbert Adams (27)
• Flight Sergeant Percy James Adshead (27)
• Sergeant William Edward Alexander (22)
• Flying Officer Arthur Raymond Allan
• Flying Officer Eric Robert Alston
• Pilot Officer Arthur John Thomas Armon (23)
• Flight Sergeant Roy Francis Crossley Badman (20)
• Pilot Officer George Harvey Bainbridge (20)
• Flight Sergeant Alfred Baker (21)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Basil Baker (25)
• Warrant Officer Class II Walter Baldwin Baldwinson (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Allan Ball (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Leo Joseph Banks (31)
• Sergeant Dennis Albert Barber
• Flight Sergeant John Raymond Bathe (30)
• Flight Lieutenant Clifton Francis Benefield (25)
• Flight Sergeant Henry Thomas Leonard Bennett (26)
• Flight Sergeant Peter Anthony Bennett (20)
• Pilot Officer Victor Hector Bernyk
• Sergeant William Bingham (22)
• Flight Sergeant John Edwin Bloomer (21)
• Pilot Officer Gerald Joseph Boucher (19)
• Pilot Officer Lawrence Joseph Henry Boudreau
• Pilot Officer Theodore Phillip Bourque

See all 291 who died on 25 April →

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