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On arrival the crew would check their aircraft over again before the pilot and flight engineer started the engines to "run them up", [127] [128] following which he as captain of the crew, signed the ground crew chief's Form 700 on a clip board accepting responsibility for a fully serviceable bomber. [116]
Maintenance and servicing of the aircraft should have been performed by 180 ground crewmen, but in reality in July 1940 there were less than 90 (the ground crew were mostly Polish as well). [6] On 17 August 1940 the squadron was attached to No. 1 (Bomber) Group RAF , along with No. 300 (Polish) Squadron, and on 28 August was relocated to RAF ...
1945. On 29 September PD343 an Avro Lancaster B.1 of No. 550 Squadron RAF went missing on a flight from Italy to the United Kingdom with 26 on board. [1]On 2 October KH219 a Consolidated Liberator GR.6 of No. 203 Squadron RAF went missing in the Bay of Bengal returning to Singapore on a supply flight, 12 on board.
No. 156 Squadron RAF; Active: 12 October 1918 – 9 December 1918 14 February 1942 – 25 September 1945: Country: United Kingdom: Branch: Royal Air Force: Part of: No. 3 Group RAF, Bomber Command (Feb 42-Aug 42) No. 8 Group RAF, Bomber Command (Aug 42-Sep 45) Motto(s) We light the way [1] [2] Insignia; Squadron Badge heraldry: A figure of ...
The following is a list of pilots and other aircrew who flew during the Battle of Britain, and were awarded the Battle of Britain Clasp [1] to the 1939–45 Star by flying at least one authorised operational sortie with an eligible unit of the Royal Air Force or Fleet Air Arm during the period from 0001 hours on 10 July to 2359 hours 31 October 1940.
The Casualty Branch of the Royal Air Force was established upon the outbreak of war in September 1939. [2] Within the Casualty Branch, a separate office called the Missing Research Section (MRS) was established in January 1942, which had to operate from within offices in the United Kingdom until D-Day, when the MRES became an official entity. [3]