Turin

Date

18 November 1942

Target

Turin, Italy

Force dispatched

77 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

52 airmen in this archive died on 18 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 Edward Appleton-bach (27)
• Sergeant Alfred Leslie Augustinus (33)
• Flying Officer Archibald Holloway Baker
• Flight Lieutenant Charles Arthur Blackburn (29)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Reginald James Bourne (22)
• Flight Sergeant James Norman Cabeldu (25)
• Leading Aircraftman Gordon William Cornish (20)
• Sergeant James Russell Duthie (25)
• Warrant Officer Class II James Fearnside (22)
• Flight Sergeant Clifford Ernest Gray (27)
• Flight Sergeant John Haddow (27)
• Sergeant William Eric Hammond (23)
• Leading Aircraftman John Harris
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Fred Hemmings (20)
• Flying Officer Frederick Charles Hill
• Flight Sergeant Jaroslav Hlouzek
• Sergeant Benjamin Colin David Holmes (20)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Walter Charles Holmes (37)
• Pilot Officer Kenneth Marshall Holroyde (32)
• Sergeant Arthur William Jones (22)
• Sergeant Rothesay Linton Jones (23)
• Pilot Officer Gardner Hill Kelly
• Sergeant John William Layton
• Leading Aircraftman Gordon Hubert Litchfield (23)

See all 52 who died on 18 November →

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