Cologne

Date

7 December 1944

Target

Cologne, Germany

Force dispatched

53 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

40 airmen in this archive died on 7 December 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 Reginald Joseph Bennett (25)
• Flying Officer Alan Campbell Bond (34)
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Murray Buchanan (29)
• Flying Officer Frederick Cradock Bull (26)
• Flight Lieutenant William Edgar Cayley (47)
• Flying Officer William Nathan Cosman
• Sergeant Stanley Esmond Cross (19)
• Flight Sergeant Walter James Ellen (20)
• Pilot Officer Lloyd Thomas Graham (21)
• Pilot Officer Ezra Mulloy Hansen (22)
• Warrant Officer Frank Herbert Hardman (28)
• Flight Sergeant Colin Arthur Lee Haslam (19)
• Flight Sergeant Richard Thurston Hawthorn (19)
• Flight Sergeant Joslyn Lavarre Henderson (20)
• Flying Officer Arthur David Hone (24)
• Flying Officer Kenneth James Hovenden (23)
• Pupil Pilot Charles Howes
• Flying Officer Bruce Douglas Hyndman (20)
• Flying Officer Spencer Edwin Leppert (21)
• Pilot Officer Kevin Charles Loe (23)
• Flying Officer Horace Keith Lyle
• Flying Officer Henry Stanley Macmeikan (22)
• Pilot Officer James Joseph Alexander McFadyen (24)
• Flying Officer Mate Alexander Milich (23)

See all 40 who died on 7 December →

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