Cologne

Date

11 August 1943

Target

Cologne, Germany

Force dispatched

32 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

216 airmen in this archive died on 11 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.

• Corporal Lloyd William Ackerman
• Pilot Officer Roydon James Adams (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Mervyn Charles Arkell (22)
• Flight Sergeant Wilfred George Atkinson (23)
• Flying Officer Wilfred Edward Bailey
• Pilot Officer Valentine Baker (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Arthur William John Barbey (22)
• Pupil Pilot John Barford
• Flight Sergeant Arthur Godfrey Bennett (29)
• Sergeant Douglas Edward Bennington (21)
• Sergeant Johann Aubrey Benson (23)
• Warrant Officer Ronald Cuthbert Besant (29)
• Flight Sergeant Oliver Augustus Bettridge (21)
• Pilot Officer Harry Binns (35)
• Flying Officer Alec Hayward Blazer (20)
• Leading Aircraftman David Victor Francis Blindell (19)
• Pilot Officer Richard Albert Bonnick (27)
• Flying Officer Ian William Bowen (29)
• Sergeant Reginald Hubert Bowers (20)
• Pilot Officer James Maxwell Brechin
• Pilot Officer John Frank Broadbent
• Sergeant Geoffrey James Broughton
• Corporal William Brown (30)
• Sergeant Eric William Capel Bryant (29)

See all 216 who died on 11 August →

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