No. 199 Squadron

Group
100 Group
Home station
RAF North Creake

About

No. 199 Squadron reformed in November 1942 at RAF Blyton on the Vickers Wellington, soon moving to RAF Lakenheath and re-equipping with the Short Stirling. After a period training for minelaying it flew bombing and sea-mining sorties in No. 3 Group.

In May 1944 the squadron was switched to the secret work of No. 100 (Bomber Support) Group and moved to RAF North Creake, its Stirlings now fitted with the Mandrel and “Shiver” jamming sets used to blind German radar — a role it carried out in support of the Normandy landings and the night bombing campaign. In 1945 it exchanged its Stirlings for the Handley Page Halifax before disbanding in July that year.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including History of War — No. 199 Squadron (RAF) in the Second World War and Wikipedia: No. 199 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

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Aircrews of No. 199 Squadron RAF are briefed for a mine-laying sortie to be undertaken off the Dutch coast, in the Operations Room at Lakenheath, Suffolk.
ⓘ licence & creditClark N S (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._CH12680.jpgView source & full licence →
ⓘ licence & creditHugh Venables / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:War_memorial,_Bunker%27s_Hill_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7633555.jpgView source & full licence →
Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Short S.29 Stirling. Stirling Mark III, EH930 ‘EX-N’, of No. 199 Squadron RAF, preparing to take off at Lakenheath, Suffolk, for a night-time minelaying operation off the Dutch coast.
ⓘ licence & creditClark N S (F/O), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aircraft_of_the_Royal_Air_Force_1939-1945-_Short_S.29_Stirling._CH12683.jpgView source & full licence →

Aircraft (1)

SerialCodeTypeFate
EH930 EX-N Short Stirling Unknown

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Further reading & sources

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