Service History

Posted to No. 3 Group in October 194. First operation flown 10/11 February 1941 against Rotterdam. Transferred to No. 8 Group in August 1941 and severed as a Pathfinder Squadron until the end of the war.

Squadron Identity Letters

Stations

MG, YU

Oakington

Logistics

Operational Performance

Operational Sorties And Losses

Group

Aircraft

Bombing Targets Tasked

Mine Laying Areas Tasked

Leaflets

Total Sorties

Flown

Aircraft Lost

Percent

3 GP

Stirling

167

11

0

918

41

4.50

8 GP

Stirling

82

7

0

826

37

4.50

8 GP

Lancaster

279

0

0

3316

87

2.60

Totals

528

18

0

5060

165

3.30

Of Note:

First squadron to fly the Stirling operationally

An original Pathfinder squadron

Along with 35 squadron, was first to use H2S operational

Suffered third highest losses within all of Bomber Command

Carried out the most raids on any No. 8 Group Lancaster squadron

Suffered highest overall percentage losses in No. 8 Group

Suffered highest percentage losses of all Stirling squadron’s

An additional 27 Stirling’s destroyed in various crashes