Service History

Formed as a Pathfinder squadron within No. 8 (Pathfinder) Group on 20 March 1944 and continued in this role until the end of the war

Squadron Identity Letters

Stations

LE

East Kirkby

Logistics

Operational Performance

Operational Sorties And Losses

Group

Aircraft

Bombing Targets Tasked

Mine Laying Areas Tasked

Leaflets

Total Sorties

Flown

Aircraft Lost

Percent

8 GP

Lancaster

189

0

0

2225

34

1.50

Totals

189

0

0

2225

34

1.50

Of Note:

Victoria Cross : S/L I.W. Bazalgette, posthumously, Trossy-St.-Maxim, 4 August 1944

Carried out first operational trials of the Lancaster Mk.VI

Memorial

Unknown