No. 578 Squadron

Royal Air Force

 

Motto:

 

ACCURACY

 

 

Updated: January 2008

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

Service History

Formed in No. 4 Group on 14 January 1944 as a bomber squadron and operated in this role until the end of the war

 

Squadron Identity Letters

Stations

LK

Snaith, Burn

 

Logistics

Operational Performance

Operational Sorties And Losses

Group

Aircraft

Bombing Targets Tasked

Mine Laying Areas Tasked

Leaflets

Total Sorties

Flown

Aircraft Lost

Percent

4 GP

Halifax

155

0

0

2721

40

1.50

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Totals

155

0

0

2721

40

1.50

Of Note:

Victoria Cross : P/O C.J. Batron, posthumously, Nuremberg 30/31 March 1944

Memorial

Unknown