Genoa

Date

15 November 1942

Target

Genoa, Italy

Force dispatched

78 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

90 airmen in this archive died on 15 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.

• Aircraftman 2nd Class Alfred Huddlestone Alcock (22)
• Sergeant Basil Derrik Allen (22)
• Squadron Leader Hugh John Shearer Anderson (25)
• Corporal John McDonald Anthony (21)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Maurice William Armitage (26)
• Flight Sergeant Laurence Armstrong (23)
• Flight Sergeant Norman Andrews Ash (20)
• Flying Officer Henry Neville Atkinson (30)
• Leading Aircraftman John Desmond Barnes (22)
• Sergeant Alfred Ernest Beach (28)
• Leading Aircraftman Willis Butler (22)
• Sergeant Herbert Carter
• Sergeant Stuart Robertson Clarke
• Sergeant Thomas Clarke (21)
• Sergeant Alan Harvey Clayton
• Sergeant Christopher Leonard Coleman (20)
• Sergeant Henry William Amner Collett (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Charles Henry Crawley (33)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Fernand Raymond Croteau
• Flight Sergeant William Smith Crowe (25)
• Sergeant Thomas Alfred Dakin (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Arthur Allen Hugh Davey (22)
• Corporal Edward Daniel Davies (40)
• Pilot Officer James Rankine Diack

See all 90 who died on 15 November →

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