Turin

Date

29 November 1942

Command

Bomber Command

Target

Turin, Italy

Force dispatched

18 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

151 airmen in this archive died on 29 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 Douglas Stanton Allen (21)
• Leading Aircraftman James Robert Allen (25)
• Flight Sergeant Donald Davie Anderson
• Sergeant Gerald Bagshaw (30)
• Squadron Leader John Richard Barnley (25)
• Squadron Leader Gerald Spencer Barrett (31)
• Sergeant Samuel Edward Barron (39)
• Flying Officer Peter St. Clair Bate
• Sergeant George Norman Beames (21)
• Pilot Officer Francis Alfred Beane (38)
• Corporal Joseph Victor Raoul Beaudry (26)
• Sergeant Ethelbert Oswald Peter Bell (34)
• Sergeant Douglas Arnold Bellerby (19)
• Corporal Geoffrey Pohlman Berry (32)
• Leading Aircraftman Harry Willis Bishop (31)
• Flight Sergeant Valance Trent Bowie (25)
• Sergeant Robert John Edward Brack
• Pilot Officer Allen Catto Bradley (29)
• Flight Sergeant Alfred Brewer
• Sergeant Benjamin Briscoe (32)
• Warrant Officer Robert George Brookes (23)
• Sergeant George Alfred Brown (24)
• Flying Officer Richard Job Thomas Brown (26)
• Sergeant Thomas Buckley (21)

See all 151 who died on 29 November →

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