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460 Sqn RAAF and RAF Binbrook memorial panel detail. The text reads:
"460 Squadron R.A.A.F. "Strike and Return". Formed at RAF Molesworth, November 15th 1941 C.O. Wing-Commander A. Hubbard DSO DFC. The Sqdn moved to RAF Breighton, on January 4th 1942. Group Captain Crummy, Station Commander. Aircraft Vickers Wellingtons.
March 12th 1942, first operation, to Emden.
May 1 1942 first thousand
bomber raid Cologne.
Sept 15th 1942 Sqdn converting to Halifaxs.
Oct
2nd 1942 Sqdn converting to Lancaster.
Nov 2nd 1942 first Lancaster Op.
Stuttgart
Jan 1943 G/Capt H.I.Edwards VC DSO DFC St Com
May 13th the last of 140 raids from Breighton, 49 crews being lost whilst
serving at Breighton.
May 14th, 460 Sqdn moved with their Lancasters to RAF Binbrook, ground
crews, flying with the air crews, the main body being transported in
Horsa gliders, towed by Albemarles.
May 16th 1943 first operation at mining sortie.
May 26th 1943 visit by King George VI and Queen.
Sept 16th 1943 Air-Chief Marshall "Butch" Harris
July 20th
1944 visit by the Duke of Gloucester
Nov 27th 1944 G/Capt H.I.Edwards flew his last op.
April 25th 1945 the last operation from Binbrook to Berchtesgaden, "ANZAC" Day,
bombing Hitlers hideout, one air-craft being shot down.
Other operations were "MANNA," dropping food to the starving Dutch people, "EXODUS" bringing prisoners of war back from Germany, and Italy
July 27th 1945, 460 Sqdn moved to East-Kirkby, to join "Tiger-Force" in 5 Group, to bomb Japan. Howver atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, thus ending the war.
Aircrew killed, 1018. P.O.W. 201, Aircraft lost 181. Not forgetting, the hard working ground crews."
This photo appears with kind permission of yoshiwara.org.uk
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