No. 630 Squadron
- Group
- 5 Group
- Home station
- RAF East Kirkby
About
No. 630 Squadron was formed in November 1943 at RAF East Kirkby in Lincolnshire from a flight of No. 57 Squadron, with which it shared the station, and flew the Avro Lancaster in No. 5 Group. From its first operation that month until the end of the war it took part in the main offensive against Germany, including every one of the sixteen heavy raids of the Battle of Berlin.
It flew over 2,500 sorties at a heavy price — sixty-four of the crews who served with it were lost. After the bombing ended it helped ferry prisoners of war home before disbanding in July 1945. Its motto, Nocturna mors, meant “death by night”.
Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including No. 630 Squadron — Squadron history and Wikipedia: No. 630 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 & credit
Royal Air Force official photographer, Forward (F/O) / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Air_Force_Bomber_Command,_1942-1945._CH12778.jpgView source & full licence →ⓘ licence & credit
Forward (F/O), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:630_Squadron_crew_WWII_IWM_CH_12778.jpgView source & full licence →Operations flown
- Operation Nuremberg raid — 30 March 1944 (Nuremberg)
Aircraft (3)
| Serial | Code | Type | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| JB288 | LE-H | Avro Lancaster | Lost on operations |
| ME664 | LE-T | Avro Lancaster | Lost on operations |
| ND337 | LE-S | Avro Lancaster | Lost on operations |
No service records linked to this squadron yet. Aircraft, crews and sorties will appear here soon.
Further reading & sources
External sites — facts only are reused here; their text and images remain their authors'.