Cologne

Date

14 May 1944

Command

Bomber Command

Target

Cologne, Germany

Force dispatched

43 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

70 airmen in this archive died on 14 May 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.

• Sergeant Norman Frederick Alsop (20)
• Sergeant Joel Thomas Bamford
• Sergeant Charles Beagle
• Aircraftman 1st Class Dennis William Blanks (22)
• Pilot Officer Deryck Hunter Bond (22)
• Sergeant Albert Grosvenor Brittain (29)
• Sergeant Leonard Brough (21)
• Flight Sergeant Wallace Bruce Burton (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Ronald Colley (22)
• Flight Lieutenant David Martin Colmore
• Pilot Officer William Francis Crosbie (29)
• Leading Aircraftman Frank Duncan (20)
• Flight Sergeant Cecil Blanchard Dunthorne (21)
• Flying Officer John Anthony Edgar
• Warrant Officer Andre Emile Eid (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Eves (21)
• Flying Officer John Manson Finnie (23)
• Flight Sergeant James Cecil Fowler (33)
• Sergeant Geoffrey Bernard Gaunt (34)
• Corporal Norman Bernard Gildemaster (22)
• Pilot Officer Eric Geoffrey Harman (29)
• Squadron Leader Willard James Harper
• Sergeant Douglas William Harrison (21)
• Warrant Officer Peter Campbell Haslam (24)

See all 70 who died on 14 May →

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