No. 467 Squadron — RAAF

Group
No. 5 Group
Command
Bomber Command
Home station
RAF Waddington

In the database: 7 aircraft · 28 service members · 4 sorties.

History

No. 467 Squadron was an Australian unit formed at RAF Scampton in November 1942 under the Empire Air Training Scheme and equipped from the outset with the Avro Lancaster. Serving in No. 5 Group, it operated from RAF Bottesford before moving to RAF Waddington, the Lincolnshire station with which it is most associated.

The squadron is famous for one particular aircraft — Lancaster R5868, “S for Sugar”, which survived an extraordinary 137 operations and is preserved today at the Royal Air Force Museum. Over the war the squadron flew more than 3,800 sorties at a heavy cost in men and machines.

Photographs

Aircraft of the Royal Air Force in the Second World War 1939-1945 Ground staff wave off [Avro Lancaster](/aircraft/1/) B Mark III, LM583 'PO-O', of [No. 467 Squadron](/squadrons/37/) RAAF, as it begins its take-off run at [Waddington](/airfields/2/), Lincolnshire, on a daylight sortie to occupied Europe. The painted tail fin indicates a G-H Leader's aircraft, i.e. an aircraft carrying blind-bombing radar, which would lead the rest of the Squadron to the correct aiming point in the event of low cloud cover. Each squadron of No.5 Group, Bomber Command, had its own distinctive G-H tail markings, that of 467 Squadron being a blue cross on a white background. LM583 was subsequently shot down by fighters during a raid on Konigsberg on the night of 29/30 August 1944.
ⓘ licence & creditRoyal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Avro_Lancaster_-_Waddington_-_Aircraft_of_the_Royal_Air_Force_in_the_Second_World_War_1939-1945_MH6448.jpgView source & full licence →

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