Cologne

Date

28 January 1945

Target

Cologne, Germany

Force dispatched

156 aircraft

Aircraft lost

3

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

86 airmen in this archive died on 28 January 1945 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.

• Flying Officer Norman Godwin Baily (31)
• Wing Commander Nigel William Barker (31)
• Sergeant Reginald Thomas Barter (24)
• Flying Officer Alfred Vincent Eric Bate (31)
• Lieutenant Edward Baxter
• Flying Officer Peter Norham Birt (20)
• Flying Officer John Wilfred Blades
• Sergeant Edward Max Bowman (27)
• Warrant Officer Marshall Vivian Muir Bowness (28)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Henry Brown (23)
• Sergeant Frank Tranter Burgess (22)
• Flight Sergeant John Hunter Carter (22)
• Pilot Officer Russell Edmund Chatfield (32)
• Flying Officer Colin Laidler Chisholm (23)
• Pilot Officer Harold Luther Clark
• Pilot Officer Leslie John Collinson
• Flying Officer Franklin Howard Cummer (21)
• Flying Officer Allan Dalglish (27)
• Flying Officer Douglas Lyle Dewart (21)
• Pilot Officer Gordon James Doyle (23)
• Flight Sergeant John Alexander Emerson (30)
• Flying Officer Allan Llewellyn Evans (24)
• Flight Sergeant Sidney Filipchuk
• Leading Aircraftman Frank Hugh Fisher (22)

See all 86 who died on 28 January →

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