Cologne

Date

2 July 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

128 airmen in this archive died on 2 July 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.

• Flight Sergeant Herbert Armitage (29)
• Sergeant Kenneth Boardman Astall (21)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Elmer Atkinson (20)
• Flight Sergeant Reginald William Ault (27)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Stephen Banks (31)
• Sergeant Gordon Henry Bennett (27)
• Flying Officer George Ronald Birnie (23)
• Sergeant Michael Bloomfield (30)
• Air Sergeant Botha (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Pryce Oliver Bowen
• Aircraftman 1st Class Clifford Edwin Bozworth (22)
• Warrant Officer Class II James Millar Brownie (26)
• Sergeant Kenneth Reginald Burrows (33)
• Aircraftman 1st Class George Cachia
• Flight Sergeant William Beauchamp Cameron (26)
• Lieutenant Campbell (20)
• Pilot Officer Stanley Edward Carey (26)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Allan Carter
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Reginald Jack Carter
• Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Cheney (23)
• Pilot Officer Calder Leper Cleland (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Robert William Stenhouse Combe (20)
• Sergeant Wilfred Martin Coopey (23)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Corless

See all 128 who died on 2 July →

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