Genoa

Date

6 November 1942

Target

Genoa, Italy

Force dispatched

65 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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

155 airmen in this archive died on 6 November 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.

• Leading Aircraftman Peter Allan (32)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Alexander Northcote Ashley (19)
• Sergeant William Joseph Atkinson (20)
• Sergeant Harry Bailey (28)
• Sergeant William Alfred Henry Ball
• Flying Officer Walter Barfod (29)
• Squadron Leader Philip Rex Barr
• Sergeant Charles Henry Barton (23)
• Sergeant Reginald Edward Bates (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Ian William Batton (20)
• Flight Sergeant Eric Simonds Bayley (32)
• Sergeant Frederick George Beale (22)
• Flight Lieutenant William Alfred Maurice Birt
• Corporal Henry Bartlett Bishop
• Sergeant Alfred Stephen Edgar Blackshire (21)
• Sergeant Joseph Cecil Brookes (27)
• Sergeant James Michael Burgess (31)
• Pilot Officer Harold Edward Busby
• Sergeant Sidney John Butcher (20)
• Sergeant George Alfred Carter (20)
• Sergeant Cyril George Cave (22)
• Pilot Officer Norman Richard Chap
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Dudley Chapman (24)
• Sergeant William Geoffrey Chapman (37)

See all 155 who died on 6 November →

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