No. 428 (Ghost) Squadron

Royal Canadian Air Force

 

Motto:

 

USQUE AD FINEM

(To The Very End)

 

 

 

Updated: January 2008

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

Service History

Formed with in No. 4 Group on 7 November 1942, but did not become operational until the squadron had been transferred to the newly formed No. 6 Group, RCAF in January 1943. Remained an operational bomber squadron until the end of the war

 

Squadron Identity Letters

Stations

NA

Dalton, Middleton-St.-George

 

Logistics

Operational Performance

Operational Sorties And Losses

Group

Aircraft

Bombing Targets Tasked

Mine Laying Areas Tasked

Leaflets

Total Sorties

Flown

Aircraft Lost

Percent

6 GP

Wellington

26

9

0

350

17

4.90

6 GP

Halifax

69

53

0

1406

32

2.30

6 GP

Lancaster

111

0

0

1677

18

1.10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Totals

3433

67

2.00

3207

68

2.10

Of Note:

None

Memorial

No. 428 Squadron, RCAF