No. 622 Squadron

Royal Air Force

 

Motto:

 

BELIMUS NOCTU

(We Wage War By Night)

 

 

Updated: January 2008

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

Service History

Formed in No. 3 Group on 10 August 1943 as a bomber squadron and continued in this role until the end of the war

 

Squadron Identity Letters

Stations

GI

Mildenhall

 

Logistics

Operational Performance

Operational Sorties And Losses

Group

Aircraft

Bombing Targets Tasked

Mine Laying Areas Tasked

Leaflets

Total Sorties

Flown

Aircraft Lost

Percent

3 GP

Stirling

21

20

0

195

7

3.60

3 GP

Lancaster

210

17

0

2805

44

1.60

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Totals

231

37

0

3000

51

1.70

Of Note:

None

Memorial

Unknown