Turin

Date

11 December 1942

Target

Turin, Italy

Force dispatched

82 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

117 airmen in this archive died on 11 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.

• Flight Sergeant Frank Allen (23)
• Sergeant Stephen Renato Appi
• Flying Officer Jack Biddulph Aris
• Flying Officer Joseph Ash
• Squadron Leader Glyn Ashfield (30)
• Sergeant Arthur Edward Baldry (22)
• Sergeant William Benzie Barclay (20)
• Sergeant Herbert Hawley Barker
• Flying Officer Douglas Martin Barnes (23)
• Sergeant Arthur Bateman (26)
• Flying Officer Douglas David Beale (24)
• Sergeant Donald Bell (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Gomer Couture Bellerive (22)
• Flight Sergeant Richard Manning Birdsall (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Hedley Bowering (23)
• Sergeant Thomas David McIntosh Breen (19)
• Sergeant Kenneth Brighton (21)
• Flying Officer Frederick Charles Guy Brightwell
• Flight Sergeant Francis Thomas James Bryant (23)
• Sergeant Cyril Frederick Budgen (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Frank Earl Burton (19)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Vincent Callery (26)
• Flight Sergeant Wilfrid Stanley Townsend Carter (28)
• Sergeant William Harry Casson (21)

See all 117 who died on 11 December →

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