No. 625 Squadron

Group
1 Group
Home station
RAF Kelstern

About

No. 625 Squadron was formed in October 1943 at RAF Kelstern in Lincolnshire, raised from a flight of No. 100 Squadron, and flew the Avro Lancaster in No. 1 Group. It mounted some 209 operations and around 3,500 sorties, mostly night raids against Germany, from Kelstern and — in the last weeks of the war — from RAF Scampton.

Its closing operations were errands of mercy and recovery: dropping food to the Dutch under Operation Manna and bringing prisoners of war and troops home. The squadron’s motto was “We avenge”.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including History of War — No. 625 Squadron (RAF) in the Second World War and Wikipedia: No. 625 Squadron RAF. The text is original and has been written from factual source material; no source text has been copied unless specifically quoted and attributed.

Photographs

ⓘ licence & creditBasher Eyre / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VJ_Day_at_the_National_Memorial_Arboretum_(476)_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6586051.jpgView source & full licence →
CWGC graves in Spanbroek churchyard, North Holland, of five UK and Australian airmen of No. 625 Squadron RAF
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Further reading & sources

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