No. 100 Squadron

Group
1 Group
Home station
RAF Grimsby (Waltham)

About

No. 100 Squadron was reformed in Britain on 15 December 1942 at RAF Grimsby, near Waltham in Lincolnshire, as a night heavy-bomber squadron of No. 1 Group, and was among the many units equipped with the Avro Lancaster. Its first aircraft arrived in January 1943, and crews trained up alongside the established Lancaster squadrons at neighbouring stations.

The squadron flew its first operation on 4 March 1943 against the U-boat base at St Nazaire, followed quickly by a raid on Nuremberg, and from then on took part in the main force’s every major attack on Germany. In the closing weeks of the war it moved to RAF Elsham Wolds. It lost 92 aircraft on operations. Its motto — Sarang tebuan jangan dijolok, “do not stir up a hornets’ nest” — dated from the squadron’s earlier service in Malaya.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including History of War — No. 100 Squadron (RAF) in the Second World War and Wikipedia: No. 100 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

WK162 at RAF Wildenrath, 30 July 1985. A nice visitor was this Canberra from RAF Wyton. The T.17's of 360 Squadron were more common at Wildenrath The Canberra was written off one week later: on 8 August 1985. The plane skidded off the runway at Alconbury after the pilot raised the gear to abort take off. According to his instruments the Canberra wasn't accelerating enough. The instruments were wrong...
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RAF Wyton, 12 May 1989. Canberra's 40th Anniversary. WH670 of 100 Squadron on the flight line.
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BAe Hawk T1 XX280 - 100 Squadron
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BAE Hawk XX222 from Royal Air Force at Tours (France) air meeting.
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100 Sqn Hawk soaring above the clouds over Yorkshire. UK *Organization: RAF *Object Name: 21100119 *Supplemental Categories: Training *Keywords: Hawk, 100 Sqn, 100 Squadron,, AIRCRAFT, JET , Royal Air Force, RAF, Equipment, Jet, Hawk *Country: UK
ⓘ licence & creditSgt Jack Pritchard / OGL v1.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:100_Sqn_Hawk_chasing_the_clouds_over_Yorkshire._UK._10-05-1999_MOD_45132118.jpgView source & full licence →

Operations flown

Aircraft (2)

SerialCodeTypeFate
ND458 HW-A Avro Lancaster Scrapped post-war
PB518 HW-P Avro Lancaster Lost on operations

Known personnel (1)

NameRankStationDates
Timms, Douglas James Joseph Sergeant RAF Grimsby (Waltham) ? – ?

Further reading & sources

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