Cologne

Date

16 November 1943

Target

Cologne, Germany

Force dispatched

21 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

106 airmen in this archive died on 16 November 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 Lieutenant Roy Edgar Abbott (40)
• Sergeant Herbert Harrison Airey (39)
• Flying Officer Terence Norman Alderdice (33)
• Flight Sergeant Jack Shaw Alexander (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Jack Allibone (22)
• Sergeant Kenneth Dudley Attwell (20)
• Sergeant Eric Raymond Barnes (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Raymond Carl Behrndt (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Harold Victor Bembridge (24)
• Flying Officer Anthony David Bond (21)
• Sergeant John William Bradshaw (23)
• Sergeant Francis Brady (21)
• Corporal William Brady (30)
• Flight Sergeant Alexander Thomas Brooking (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Samuel Buckley (17)
• Pilot Officer Raymond Charles Burgess (23)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Chapman (24)
• Sergeant Kelvin Coghill (40)
• Sergeant Walter Douglas Cole (20)
• Sergeant Leonard Walter Coleman (28)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Herbert James Condon (35)
• Sergeant George Walter William Crick (21)
• Sergeant Richard Curnow (21)
• Sergeant Jack Dale (21)

See all 106 who died on 16 November →

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