Turin

Date

4 February 1943

Target

Turin, Italy

Force dispatched

188 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

133 airmen in this archive died on 4 February 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.

• Sergeant George Chirrey Adam (27)
• Squadron Leader Hugo Throssell Armstrong (26)
• Sergeant Eric Atkins
• Sergeant Wilfred Eric Baker (22)
• Corporal Albert Arthur Baldock (27)
• Flight Sergeant Arthur James Douglas Barton (23)
• Leading Aircraftman James Colin Bell (33)
• Sergeant Robert John Bennett (24)
• Sergeant Wilfred Billingham (21)
• Leading Aircraftman John Thomas Bowler (26)
• Sergeant Gerald Macness Bown (28)
• Sergeant Denis George Busby (20)
• Sergeant Kenneth Clithero (25)
• Flight Sergeant Leslie John Corfield (22)
• Sergeant Thomas Cosford (36)
• Flight Sergeant Frank Crighton (39)
• Leading Aircraftman Edward Reginald Crump (25)
• Warrant Officer Class II Leonard Allan Cumming (20)
• Sergeant Frank William Dance (31)
• Flight Sergeant Frank Lawrence Darlington (23)
• Sergeant Douglas Gabriel Davies (21)
• Sergeant Hughie Francis Davies (19)
• Sergeant Amar Chandra De
• Sergeant Sidney John Dean (21)

See all 133 who died on 4 February →

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