Genoa

Date

13 November 1942

Target

Genoa, Italy

Force dispatched

88 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

81 airmen in this archive died on 13 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.

• Sergeant Frederic William John Allfrey (22)
• Flying Officer Robert Fred Lindsay Anderson (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Leslie Arthur Bale (29)
• Sergeant Bernard Bamford (25)
• Sergeant John Barber (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Francis Bernard Bassett (22)
• Sergeant Alan Albert Blake (19)
• Sergeant Trevor Morgan Blakemore (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Albert Francis Bloomfield (22)
• Flight Sergeant Norman Booth (26)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Ernest Edward Brown (19)
• Sergeant John George (ian) Cairns (20)
• Sergeant Cecil George Candler (30)
• Pilot Officer Keith Charman (30)
• Major Colenbrander (25)
• Sergeant Kenneth Victor George Collings (20)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Gerard Coonan (36)
• Air Mechanic Johannes W. Cooper (28)
• Sergeant Ryall Edward Cordrey
• Second Lieutenant George Davidson
• Flight Lieutenant George Garrett Davidson (24)
• Pilot Officer Ian George Elwin Davidson (24)
• Flying Officer Douglas Arnold Dawson (26)
• Sergeant George Lovell Ellsworth (24)

See all 81 who died on 13 November →

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