La Spezia

Date

18 April 1943

Target

La Spezia, Italy

Force dispatched

184 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

91 airmen in this archive died on 18 April 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.

• Flying Officer Andrew Nicol Adams (22)
• Sergeant Alan Gordon Allwright (18)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Herbert Chipman Amero (27)
• Sergeant James Henry Aspden (29)
• Sergeant Herbert Gerald Baggs (21)
• Flight Sergeant Leslie Neil Bain (20)
• Sergeant Kenneth Kirby Bell
• Sergeant Frank Oliver Bonham (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Albert Briggs (25)
• Sergeant Charles Benjamin Brockington (21)
• Flying Officer Douglas Earl Bruce
• Aircraftman 2nd Class William Brumwell (34)
• Sergeant Philip Maxwell Burns (19)
• Sergeant Arthur Alfred Chambers (19)
• Flying Officer Robert Nevin Chancellor (29)
• Flight Sergeant Eric Alston Clyde (21)
• Sergeant Godfrey Storian Cooper
• Sergeant Ronald Stott Cordingley (22)
• Sergeant Kenneth Coulson (21)
• Sergeant Dennis William Arthur Crowley (20)
• Flight Sergeant Stanley Oswald Cunningham (19)
• Flying Officer Brian Tristram Davies (21)
• Sergeant Charles Kingsley Davis
• Flight Sergeant Donald Norman Dawson (21)

See all 91 who died on 18 April →

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