No. 418 Squadron — City of Edmonton
- Group
- No. 11 Group
- Command
- Fighter Command
In the database: 82 aircraft.
History
No. 418 Squadron formed at Debden in November 1941 as an RCAF intruder squadron. It first used Boston IIIs for night attacks on enemy airfields and communications, then converted to Mosquitoes for intruder, bomber-escort and anti-V-1 work. Late in 1944 it joined Second Tactical Air Force, carrying out daylight sweeps over Germany and then serving briefly with the occupation forces before disbanding in September 1945.
Photographs
Illuminated by a Chance Light by the runway at Bradwell Bay, Essex, a Douglas Boston Mark III (Intruder) of No 418 Squadron RCAF prepares to take off on a night intruder mission over North-west Europe.
ⓘ licence & credit
Forward (F/O), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RCAF_Boston_at_RAF_Bradwell_Bay_WWII_CH_7211.jpgView source & full licence →Douglas Boston Mk III aircraft of No. 418 Squadron RCAF taxiing at Bradwell Bay, Essex, prior to a night intruder raid over France, September 1942 In September 1942 No 418 Squadron, RCAF, was operating Boston IIIs on night intruder sorties from Bradwell Bay. Its usual targets were Luftwaffe airfields, the French railway system and occasionally factory buildings. The aircraft in the photograph carry ventral fuselage gun packs housing four 20mm cannon.
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Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Douglas_Boston_Mk_III_aircraft_of_No._418_Squadron_RCAF_taxiing_at_Bradwell_Bay,_Essex,_prior_to_a_night_intruder_raid_over_France,_September_1942_CH7210.jpgView source & full licence →American Aircraft in RAF Service 1939-1945- Douglas Db7 and Db-7b Boston. Boston Mark III (Intruder), W8317 ‘TH-S’, of No. 418 Squadron RCAF, parked at Ford, Sussex at nightfall. Canvas covers are protecting the glazed nose and the front of the engine cowlings
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Miller (P/O), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:American_Aircraft_in_RAF_Service_1939-1945-_Douglas_Db7_and_Db-7b_Boston._CH9502.jpgView source & full licence →Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. Illuminated by a Chance Light by the runway at Bradwell Bay, Essex, a Douglas Boston Mark III (Intruder) of No 418 Squadron RCAF prepares to take off on a night intruder mission over North-west Europe.
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Royal Air Force official photographer, Forward (F/O) / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Air_Force_Fighter_Command,_1939-1945._CH7211.jpgView source & full licence →Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. Boston Mark III (Intruder), Z2165 ‘TH-X’, of No 418 Squadron RCAF based at Bradwell Bay, Essex, in flight.
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Forward (F/O), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Air_Force_Fighter_Command,_1939-1945._CH7213.jpgView source & full licence →Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. Douglas Boston Mark III, (Intruder) W8358 ‘TH-R’, of No. 418 Squadron RCAF flying off the French coast while heading back to its base at Bradwell Bay, Essex, after a night sortie over Europe. W8358 was eventually lost while on another night intruder sortie to Creil, France, on 8 November 1942.
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Forward (F/O), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Air_Force_Fighter_Command,_1939-1945._CH7215.jpgView source & full licence →Royal Air Force- Air Defence of Great Britain (adgb), 1943-1944. De Havilland Mosquito FB Mark VI, HX811 ‘TH-K’ of No. 418 Squadron RCAF, in a blister hangar at Holmesley South, Hampshire, after suffering fire damage following the explosion of a flying bomb which HX811’s crew shot down during a ‘Diver’ patrol.