No. 433 (Porcupine) Squadron

Royal Canadian Air Force

 

Motto:

 

QUISY FROTTE SY PIQUE

(Who Opposes It Gets Hurt)

 

 

 

Updated: January 2008

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

Service History

Formed with in No. 6 Group, RCAF on 25 September 1943. Remained an operational bomber squadron until the end of the war

 

Squadron Identity Letters

Stations

BM

Skipton-on-Swale

 

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

Halifax

123

39

0

1926

31

1.50

6 GP

Lancaster

28

14

0

390

3

0.80

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Totals

151

53

0

2316

31

1.30

Of Note:

None

Memorial

No. 433 Squadron, RCAF