No. 37 Squadron

Royal Air Force

 

Motto:

 

WISE WITHOUT EYES

 

 

Updated: January 2008

Service History

An operational bomber squadron with No. 3 group at the outbreak of the war. Posted to the Middle East in November 1940

 

Squadron Identity Letters

Stations

LF

Feltwell

 

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

Wellington

80

0

8

688

15

2.20

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Totals

80

0

8

688

15

2.20

Of Note:

6 Wellingtons carried out a shipping sweep of the North Sea on the first day of the war.

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