No. 434 (Bluenose) Squadron

Royal Canadian Air Force

 

Motto:

 

INEXCELSIS VINCIMUS

(We Conquer The Heights)

 

 

 

Updated: JUne 2009

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

Service History

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

 

Squadron Identity Letters

Stations

WL

Tholthorpe, Croft

 

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

135

17

0

2038

53

2.60

6 GP

Lancaster

41

0

0

559

5

0.90

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Totals

176

17

0

2597

58

2.20

Of Note:

An additional 15 Halifax’s and 2 Lancaster’s destroyed in non-operational crashes

Memorial

Unknown