No. 467 Squadron — RAAF

Group: 5 Group
Home station: RAF Waddington

About

No. 467 Squadron was an Australian unit formed at RAF Scampton in November 1942 under the Empire Air Training Scheme and equipped from the outset with the Avro Lancaster. Serving in No. 5 Group, it operated from RAF Bottesford before moving to RAF Waddington, the Lincolnshire station with which it is most associated.

The squadron is famous for one particular aircraft — Lancaster R5868, “S for Sugar”, which survived an extraordinary 137 operations and is preserved today at the Royal Air Force Museum. Over the war the squadron flew more than 3,800 sorties at a heavy cost in men and machines.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including History of War — No. 467 Squadron (RAAF) in the Second World War and Wikipedia: No. 467 Squadron RAAF. The text is original and has been written from factual source material; no source text has been copied unless specifically quoted and attributed.

Photographs

Avro Lancaster - Waddington - Aircraft of the Royal Air Force in the Second World War 1939-1945 MH6448 — Aircraft of the Royal Air Force in the Second World War 1939-1945 Ground staff wave off Avro Lancaster B Mark III, LM583 'PO-O', of No. 467 Squadron RAAF, as it begins its take-off run at Waddington, Lincolnshire, on a daylight sortie to occupied Europe. The painted tail fin indicates a G-H Leader's aircraft, i.e. an aircraft carrying blind-bombing radar, which would lead the rest of the Squadron to the correct aiming point in the event of low cloud cover. Each squadron of No.5 Group, Bomber Command, had its own distinctive G-H tail markings, that of 467 Squadron being a blue cross on a white background. LM583 was subsequently shot down by fighters during a raid on Konigsberg on the night of 29/30 August 1944.

ⓘ licence & credit
Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Avro_Lancaster_-_Waddington_-_Aircraft_of_the_Royal_Air_Force_in_the_Second_World_War_1939-1945_MH6448.jpgView source & full licence →

Operations flown

Wilhelmshaven — 19 February 1943
Operation Nuremberg raid — 30 March 1944 (Nuremberg)

Aircraft (5)

Serial	Code	Type	Fate
DV240	PO-D	Avro Lancaster	Lost on operations
ED525	PO	Avro Lancaster	Lost on operations
ED529	PO	Avro Lancaster	Lost on operations
LM376	PO-O	Avro Lancaster	Lost on operations
R5868	PO-S	Avro Lancaster	Survived the war

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