No. 419 Squadron — Moose

Group
6 Group
Home station
RAF Middleton St George

About

No. 419 “Moose” Squadron was a Royal Canadian Air Force bomber unit formed in December 1941. It began operations on the Vickers Wellington, converted to the Handley Page Halifax, and from 1944 flew the Canadian-built Avro Lancaster B.X. On the formation of the Canadian No. 6 Group at the start of 1943 it joined that group, and it made its home at RAF Middleton St George in County Durham.

The squadron took its name and its fierce moose emblem from an early commanding officer, Wing Commander John “Moose” Fulton, who was lost on operations in 1942. Its most honoured airman was Pilot Officer Andrew Mynarski, who on the night of 12/13 June 1944 stayed in his blazing Lancaster trying to free the trapped rear gunner, suffering fatal burns; he was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including Bomber Command Museum of Canada — No. 419 (Moose) Squadron and History of War — No. 419 (Moose) Squadron (RCAF) in the Second World War. The text is original and has been written from factual source material; no source text has been copied unless specifically quoted and attributed.

Photographs

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. The first Canadian-built Avro Lancaster B Mark X, KB700 "The Ruhr Express", taxying after landing at Northolt, Middlesex, following a delivery flight across the Atlantic. KB700 was the first of 300 aircraft built by Victory Aircraft of Malton, Ontario, and flew operationally with Nos. 405 and 419 Squadrons RCAF.
ⓘ licence & creditCrouch F W (F/O), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Air_Force_Bomber_Command,_1942-1945._CH11041.jpgView source & full licence →

Aircraft (1)

SerialCodeTypeFate
KB726 VR-A Avro Lancaster Lost on operations

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