No. 434 Squadron — Bluenose

Group: 6 Group
Home station: RAF Croft

About

No. 434 “Bluenose” Squadron was formed at RAF Tholthorpe in June 1943 as part of the Canadian No. 6 Group, moving in December to RAF Croft, where it served for the rest of the war. It flew the Handley Page Halifax and later the Avro Lancaster, opening its account with an attack on Milan in August 1943.

The squadron was adopted by the Rotary Club of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and took the nickname “Bluenose” — the common name for Nova Scotians and the name of the famous racing schooner that symbolises the province. Its motto, In excelsis vincimus, meant “we conquer the heights”.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including 434 Squadron — Squadron History and History of War — No. 434 (Bluenose) 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.

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