Cologne

Date

5 July 1943

Target

Cologne, Germany

Force dispatched

34 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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 5 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.

• Leading Aircraftman John Russell Allen (19)
• Sergeant Norman Allen (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Nelson Lemar Bardgett (21)
• Lieutenant Batchelor (26)
• Squadron Leader Arthur Cecil Bawtree (38)
• Leading Aircraftman Robert Horace Birch (29)
• Pilot Officer John James Bowman (21)
• Flight Sergeant William Edward Brister (28)
• Pilot Officer John Alexander Buchanan (19)
• Flying Officer Walter Robert Butt
• Leading Aircraftman Reginald Alfred Charlottes
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Roy Clarke (20)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Kenneth Clucas (22)
• Flight Sergeant David Llewellyn Cole (24)
• Flying Officer James Keith Collier (21)
• Flight Sergeant Brian Alistarre Cook (22)
• Flying Officer Daniel William Courtman (28)
• Leading Aircraftman Robert Thomas Creber (22)
• Flying Officer Frank Darbyshire (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas Eric Davies (19)
• Sergeant Walter Dench (22)
• Sergeant Richard Walter Albert Dipple (20)
• Sergeant Leslie Edward Edwards (20)
• Flying Officer Robert Ellis (22)

See all 86 who died on 5 July →

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