No. 424 Squadron — Tiger

Group
No. 6 Group (RCAF)
Command
Bomber Command
Home station
RAF Skipton-on-Swale

In the database: 2 aircraft · 14 service members · 2 sorties.

History

No. 424 “Tiger” Squadron formed in Britain in October 1942 as a Royal Canadian Air Force bomber unit, joining the Canadian No. 6 Group at the start of 1943. After a few months flying the Vickers Wellington at home it was sent to North Africa to support the invasions of Sicily and Italy, returning to Britain late in 1943 to re-equip with the Handley Page Halifax and, in 1945, the Avro Lancaster. Its wartime home was RAF Skipton-on-Swale in Yorkshire.

The squadron was adopted by the city of Hamilton, Ontario, and its tiger badge nodded to a local sports team. Its motto, Castigandos castigamus, declared that “we chastise those who deserve to be chastised”.

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