No. 432 (Leaside) Squadron

Royal Canadian Air Force

 

Motto:

 

SAEVITER AD LUCEM

(Ferociously Toward The Light)

 

 

 

Updated: January 2008

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

Service History

Formed with in No. 6 Group, RCAF in May 1943. Remained an operational bomber squadron until the end of the war

 

Squadron Identity Letters

Stations

QO

Skipton-on-Swale, East Moor

 

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

18

29

0

494

16

3.20

6 GP

Lancaster

16

0

0

190

8

4.20

6 GP

Halifax

167

0

0

2416

41

1.70

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Totals

201

29

0

3100

65

2.10

Of Note:

Flew the most Wellington sorties in No. 6 Group, RCAF

Memorial

No. 432 Squadron, RCAF