Turin
20 November 1942 — Turin
- Date
- 20 November 1942
- Target
- Turin, Italy
Narrative
Turin, home of the Fiat works, was the most heavily attacked of the Italian cities in the 1942–43 campaign. The raids of November 1942 were among the first, ranging far over the Alps to strike the industrial capital of Mussolini’s Italy — the same series in which, a week later, Flight Sergeant Rawdon Middleton would win his Victoria Cross.
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
112 airmen in this archive died on 20 November 1942 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 William John Baker (21)
- Corporal Henry Barker (33)
- Sergeant James Robert Barlow (22)
- Flying Officer Francis Bartkiewicz (20)
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edward Bryan Bennett (32)
- Flight Lieutenant Beresford Lionel Blackbourn
- Pilot Officer Allan Booth (30)
- Flight Sergeant John Henry Harold Buckerfield (47)
- Sergeant Howell James Buckley (22)
- Flight Sergeant Albert Buckton (23)
- Flying Officer Alexander Lyon Campbell (25)
- Sergeant Terence William Henry Casbolt (21)
- Pilot Officer Cedric William Clare
- Sergeant Alfred Edward Clay (21)
- Sergeant Thomas Connor (27)
- Flight Sergeant Edmund Murray Corlett (33)
- Aircraftman 1st Class Hugh Craig
- Squadron Leader Alan Thomas Cridland (34)
- Corporal Arthur Crosland (32)
- Pilot Officer Norman Arthur Davies (28)
- Flight Lieutenant Cecil Clement Hood Davis
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Charles Day (34)
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Julius De Marco (25)
- Flying Officer Alastair Easson Dinnie (24)