Cologne

Date

6 August 1943

Target

Cologne, Germany

Force dispatched

44 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

149 airmen in this archive died on 6 August 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.

• Sergeant George Leslie Abrahams (22)
• Sergeant Raymond Henry Amstell
• Flight Sergeant William McKenzie Arril
• Air Mechanic Errol F. Ashburner
• Flight Sergeant Ronald William Bagley (18)
• Sergeant Robert (ronnie) Baird (21)
• Flight Sergeant Herbert Abraham Bate (35)
• Leading Aircraftman John Beattie (23)
• Sergeant Frank Belcourt (21)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Gordon William Bickley (22)
• Flying Officer Wilbert Jacob Bieber (22)
• Sergeant James Binnie
• Flying Officer Colin Basil Lynch Bodger (21)
• Sergeant Ronald Booth (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Ronald Bottomley (21)
• Sergeant William Leonard Boundy
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas Henry Bowles
• Sergeant Bernard Bradshaw (21)
• Sergeant Vitezslav Briza (23)
• Flight Sergeant Edward Dewar Brokenshire (21)
• Flying Officer Leslie Norman Buttimore (23)
• Pilot Officer Donald Clive Challis (29)
• Flying Officer Ross Edgerton Clark (20)
• Flight Sergeant Reginald B. Clements (23)

See all 149 who died on 6 August →

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