No. 38 Squadron

Royal Air Force

 

Motto:

 

ANTE LUCEM

(Before The Dawn)

 

 

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

NH

Marham

 

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

88

0

3

659

7

1.10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Totals

88

0

3

659

7

1.10

Of Note:

An operational bomber squadron at the outbreak of war

Suffered unusually low causalities rate for a bomber squadron during the early months of the war

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