No. 23 Squadron

Royal Air Force

 

Motto:

 

UNKNOWN

 

 

 

Updated: January 2008

Service History

Returned from Italy as a fighter squadron and attached to No. 100 (Bomber Support) Squadron as a “Serrate” and intruder squadron. And remained operating in those roles from July 1944 until the wars end.

 

Squadron Identity Letters

Stations

Unknown

Little Snoring

 

Logistics

Operational Performance

Operational Sorties And Losses

Group

Aircraft

Serrate

Intruder

Daylight Escort

Total Sorties

Flown

Aircraft Lost

Percent

100 GP

Mosquito

70

125

8

1067

8

0.70

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Totals

70

125

8

1067

8

0.70

Of Note:

Claimed 3 enemy aircraft destroyed and 1 damaged

Claimed 15 aircraft destroyed on the ground

Source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, By Matrin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt

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