No. 157 Squadron
Royal Air Force
Motto:
UNKNOWN
Updated: January 2008
Source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, By Matrin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
Service History | |||||||
A Mosquito night-fighter squadron prior to being posted to No. 100 (Bomber Support) Group in May 1944. With the exception of two short period in the summer of 1944 when the squadron was tasked to fly anti-flying bomb (V1) sorties, the squadron carried out intruder operations until the end of the war | |||||||
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Squadron Identity Letters |
Stations | ||||||
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Swannington, West Malling (flying bomb sorties) | ||||||
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Logistics |
Operational Performance |
Operational Sorties And Losses | |||||
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Aircraft |
Bombing Targets Tasked |
Flying Bomb |
Leaflets |
Total Sorties Flown |
Aircraft Lost |
Percent |
100 GP |
Mosquito |
174 |
214 |
0 |
1336 |
5 |
0.37 |
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174 |
214 |
0 |
1336 |
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Of Note: | |||||||
Claimed: 18 Ju88, 14 Me110, 2 Ju188, 2 He119, 2 FW190 aircraft destroyed | |||||||
Claimed: 13 German aircraft damaged | |||||||
Claimed: 39 Flying Bombs (V1) destroyed and 1 damaged | |||||||
Memorial | |||||||
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