Service History

Posted to No. 4 Group on 14 February 1942 and with the exception of short detachments to Coast Command in November and December 1942, remained with the group for the remainder of the war

Squadron Identity Letters

Stations

AH, NP

Driffield, East Moor, Rufforth, Lissett

Logistics

Operational Performance

Operational Sorties And Losses

Group

Aircraft

Bombing Targets Tasked

Flying Bomb

Leaflets

Total Sorties

Flown

Aircraft Lost

Percent

4 GP

Wellington

345

3

0

207

14

6.80

4 GP

Halifax

267

8

0

5161

145

2.80

Totals

612

11

0

5368

159

3.00

Of Note:

Flew most Halifax sorties in Bomber Command

Halifax Mk.III (LV907) – Nicknamed “Friday the 13^th” after the day of its delivery to the squadron, flew 128 operational sorties and survived the war. This aircraft held the recorded for the most sorties flown by a Halifax, but was still sent to the scrap yard once its deemed surplus

Casualties suffered: 589 killed (includes died of wounds or died in prison camps), 308 POW’s, 61 evaded capture, 78 have no known graves. 107 of those killed resulted in crashes in the United Kingdom

Memorial

Unknown