Service History

Operated as a radio-countermeasures squadron in the Middle East until being disbanded in September 1944. Reformed in England on 18 December 1944 as part of No. 8 (Pathfinder) Squadron’s Light Night Striking Force (LNSF) and operated with the group until the end of the war

Squadron Identity Letters

Stations

MA

Bourne

Logistics

Operational Performance

Operational Sorties And Losses

Group

Aircraft

Bombing Targets Tasked

Mine Laying Areas Tasked

Leaflets

Total Sorties

Flown

Aircraft Lost

Percent

8 GP

Mosquito

89

0

0

913

1

0.10

Totals

89

0

0

913

1

0.10

Of Note:

Suffered the lowest casualties and lowest percentage losses in Bomber Command

Part of the squadron was equipped with H2S and carried target markers during the Mosquito campaign against Berlin in the final weeks of the war

Memorial

Unknown