Cologne

Date

28 December 1944

Target

Cologne, Germany

Force dispatched

168 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

73 airmen in this archive died on 28 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.

• Pilot Officer Raymond Francis Adam (20)
• Sergeant Joseph Atkinson
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Henry Barnett (20)
• Pilot Officer Charles Raymond Bradley
• Flying Officer Chester Merrill Buell
• Flying Officer Lloyd John Gordon Catheralle (23)
• Pilot Officer Bernard Victor Cobbett (20)
• Pilot Officer Roy Clifford Conley
• Pilot Officer Vincent Harold Coyne (27)
• Flying Officer Joseph Patrick Leonard Cullen (25)
• Pilot Officer Frederick Stanley Dennis
• Flying Officer Arthur Allen Dixon
• Flying Officer Bertram Ernest Drewery (25)
• Flying Officer Howard Raymond Dryer (20)
• Flying Officer Robert Allan Ebber
• Pilot Officer Jacob Feldman
• Lieutenant Michael Flynn (21)
• Flying Officer Gerald Gordon Fox (21)
• Warrant Officer Robert James Frizzell (29)
• Lieutenant Howard Thomas Funkey (24)
• Flight Sergeant James Raymond Giblin (27)
• Flight Sergeant Albert Edward Gillings (48)
• Flight Lieutenant Francis Brooke Pickard Gregory
• Pilot Officer Alan Wardell Haley (21)

See all 73 who died on 28 December →

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