Turin

Date

9 December 1942

Target

Turin, Italy

Force dispatched

227 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

125 airmen in this archive died on 9 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.

• Flying Officer Leo Anderle
• Sergeant Leslie Arthur Arbutt (19)
• Sergeant Thomas Philip Attridge (21)
• Sergeant Frederick John Baker (22)
• Flight Sergeant Orville Russel Ballantyne
• Sergeant Thomas Beattie
• Flight Sergeant Calman Bentley (29)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Guy Bertrand (21)
• Flying Officer John Alexander Bruce
• Pilot Officer Edward Stanley Burrows (26)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Charles Burry
• Warrant Officer Class I Billie Carmichael
• Sergeant James Henry Carter (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Frank Chambers (27)
• Pilot Officer William Thomas Charles Chambers
• Corporal Roy Edward Chandler (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Douglas Gordon Cameron Chown (23)
• Sergeant Raymond Arthur Clark (19)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Cockburn (34)
• Leading Aircraftman Paul Douglas Colbourne (24)
• Sergeant Douglas Sherwin Colley (22)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Harold Cooper (33)
• Pilot Officer Edward Salter Corbett (21)
• Pilot Officer John Pugh Cranstoun (18)

See all 125 who died on 9 December →

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