Source Documents
Record | Events | Title | Source Website | Type | Created | |
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Forces War Records | Image | 12 Jan 2013 | ||||
Forces War Records | Image | 12 Jan 2013 | ||||
Forces War Records | Image | 12 Jan 2013 | ||||
Forces War Records | Image | 12 Jan 2013 | ||||
Forces War Records | Image | 13 Jan 2013 | ||||
Forces War Records | Image | 13 Jan 2013 | ||||
Birth, Custom, Death, People | US, Social Security Death Index | Forces War Records | Index Record | 3 Sept 2008 | ||
Forces War Records | Memorial | 27 Nov 2008 |
Source URLs
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427 Squadron | |||
Enter a title427 Squad RCAF Leeming, England. | 427 Squadron started as a bomber squadron formed at Croft, England on 7 November 1942 and spent its wartime entirely in England as a part of No. 6 Group RCAF, RAF Bomber Command. 427 flew Vickers Wellington Mk IIIs and Mk Xs from its first operational mission on 14 December 1942, a minelaying sortie to the Frisian Islands, until May 1943 when it was relocated to Leeming, North Yorkshire. Re-equipped with Handley Page Halifax Mk V aircraft, the squadron flew intensely until early 1944 when it replaced its inventory with Halifax Mk III aircraft. |