It disbanded at the end of It re-formed at RAF Bircham Newton on 1 June with the Vickers Vimy as a night heavy bomber squadron, continuing in this role with a succession of types through the inter-war period.
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Part of the squadron was split off in October to form No. In April the squadron received four Vickers Wellesleys to equip a flight which was again split off to form 76 Squadron. In June it became a training unit, preparing crews for the Hampden equipped 5 Group. On the outbreak of the Second World War, it continued to be used for training bomber crews, disbanding on 4 April when it merged with 76 Squadron to form No.
It flew its last bomber mission on 25 April against Wangerooge , and dropped food to starving civilians in the Netherlands in May.
While it was planned to fly 7 Squadron out to the Far East to join Tiger Force for air attacks against Japan, the war ended before the squadron was due to move. The squadron carried out 5, operational sorties with the loss of aircraft. All passengers and the four crew were killed.
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Aeroplane Monthly , December Aeroplane Monthly , June Published by the author, no ISBN. West, Flt Lt R. Nothing Heard After Take-off: In early No. Losses were heavy but the results worthwhile. By March the group was made out of these flying units, conversion to the Halifax and Wellington was almost finished some squadrons having still one or two Whitleys at hand:.
On that station a gradual changeover from RAF to French Air Force personnel was effected, so that by September , the station was almost exclusively French and commanded by an officer of the French Air Force.
In July the group looked like this, having pretty much standardised on the Halifax B. Prior to the invasion of Normandy in June intense attacks began on French marshalling yards and gun emplacements on the French coast, troop concentrations and V-weapon sites, reaching a peak in August when 3, sorties were flown. Its attention later transferred to bombing railway centres in preparation for the crossing of the Rhine. During the war 61, operational sorties were flown, the group trained many Bomber Command crews and helped to create two other bomber groups.
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