No. 3 Group

No. 3 Group was one of the oldest formations in Bomber Command, with its stations clustered in East Anglia. It bore much of the early-war effort on the Vickers Wellington, then became the principal operator of the Short Stirling, the first of the RAF’s four-engined ‘heavies’, before re-equipping with the Avro Lancaster. Late in the war No. 3 Group specialised in ‘G-H’ blind-bombing, a radar technique that let its formations bomb accurately through cloud and earned it a reputation for precision against German industrial and oil targets.