Cologne

Date

27 November 1944

Target

Cologne, Germany

Force dispatched

170 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

34 airmen in this archive died on 27 November 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.

• Squadron Leader The Rev. James Gordon Brown
• Flight Lieutenant Sydney Leslie Cary (35)
• Flying Officer Lionel James Colgan (26)
• Sergeant William Roy Courage (21)
• Pilot Officer John Dickie (26)
• Corporal Alan Sydney Durose
• Flying Officer Walter Henry Egan
• Flight Sergeant William Stanley Evans (21)
• Flying Officer Jack Glen Millan Fisher (21)
• Flying Officer William Alexander Greenshields (27)
• Aircraftman 1st Class James Reginald Groves (28)
• Flight Sergeant Keith Harris (33)
• Sergeant Stanley Jack Hattersley (19)
• Squadron Leader Kenneth Victor Ingham (26)
• Flight Lieutenant Alfred Ernest Marshall (29)
• Flight Lieutenant Thomas McAleese (27)
• Corporal Thomas Hugh McGlade (38)
• Flying Officer Thomas Patrick McHale (24)
• Captain Munro (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Walter Nazarko (21)
• Flying Officer Edward Harry Norman (23)
• Flying Officer Henry James Stuart O'Brien
• Flying Officer Henry Milton Pope (22)
• Pilot Officer Graham Purvis (22)

See all 34 who died on 27 November →

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