Cologne

Date

6 July 1943

Target

Cologne, Germany

Force dispatched

36 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

130 airmen in this archive died on 6 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 Herbert John Allen (23)
• Leading Aircraftman John Russell Allen (19)
• Sergeant Thomas Armstrong (20)
• Flying Officer Ronald Charles Arthur
• Sergeant Leonard William Bacon (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Nelson Lemar Bardgett (21)
• Sergeant Charles Dennis Barker (22)
• Flight Sergeant Donald Leighton Spence Barr (21)
• Sergeant William Henry Bartlett (22)
• Sergeant Raymond George Bates (27)
• Squadron Leader Robert George Leslie Baxter (27)
• Flying Officer Adrian Beare
• Sergeant Sydney James Betts (34)
• Leading Aircraftman Robert Horace Birch (29)
• Pilot Officer John James Bowman (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Ernest Godfrey Brazendale
• Flight Sergeant William Edward Brister (28)
• Warrant Officer Charles Willie Brooks (24)
• Pilot Officer John Alexander Buchanan (19)
• Sergeant John Desmond Butterly (33)
• Sergeant Gideon Jamieson Cairncross
• Corporal Maurice Cawkwell (32)
• Leading Aircraftman Reginald Alfred Charlottes
• Flight Sergeant Clement Frederick Clements (21)

See all 130 who died on 6 July →

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