Turin

Date

8 December 1942

Target

Turin, Italy

Force dispatched

133 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

127 airmen in this archive died on 8 December 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 Henry Charles Adkins (31)
• Sergeant Cyril George Adnams (28)
• Leading Aircraftman Alexander Allan (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Rowland Hugh Archer (19)
• Sergeant William Aitken Baillie (21)
• Wing Commander Francis George Levett Bain
• Sergeant Eric Bance (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Harold Bellin (28)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Guy Bertrand (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Norman Cecil Beves (22)
• Sergeant Jochemus Johannes Blignaut
• Sergeant Roy Boardman (29)
• Sergeant Frederick Ernest Arthur Box (34)
• Sergeant James William Brotherston (27)
• Sergeant George Danskin Findlay Buchan (19)
• Warrant Officer Basile Ronald Martin Burnham (28)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Charles Burry
• Leading Aircraftman Kent Bligh Bussell (20)
• Sergeant James Henry Carter (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Frank Chambers (27)
• Sergeant John Eskrett Charker (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Douglas Gordon Cameron Chown (23)
• Sergeant Raymond Arthur Clark (19)
• Sergeant John Alfred Clough (19)

See all 127 who died on 8 December →

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