No. 420 Squadron — Snowy Owl
- Group
- 6 Group
- Home station
- RAF Tholthorpe
About
No. 420 “Snowy Owl” Squadron was formed in December 1941 at RAF Waddington as a Royal Canadian Air Force bomber unit, and over the war flew a string of types including the Handley Page Hampden, the Vickers Wellington, the Handley Page Halifax and the Avro Lancaster. Through the summer and autumn of 1943 it served in North Africa, flying Wellingtons in support of the invasions of Sicily and Italy.
On the creation of the Canadian No. 6 Group in January 1943 it became one of its squadrons, and from December 1943 it operated from RAF Tholthorpe in Yorkshire for the rest of the war. Its motto, Pugnamus finitum, meant “we fight to the finish”.
Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including History of War — No. 420 (Snowy Owl) Squadron (RCAF) in the Second World War and Wikipedia: No. 420 Squadron RCAF. The text is original and has been written from factual source material; no source text has been copied unless specifically quoted and attributed.
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