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No. 192 Squadron Royal Air Force    No.192 Squadron was formed 5th September 1917 at Gainsborough as an advanced training unit for night fighter pilots. It disbanded on December 1918. The squadron reformed at Gransden Lodge on 4th January 1943 when No 1474 Flight was redesignated as 192 Squadron. the Squadron was engaged in wireless developemnt and radar investigations work. On 15th November 1943 the Squadron was attached to no.100 Group in Bomber Command to intercept enemy radar during bomber operations. Airfields at which 192 Squadron were based: 4 -10 January 1943: Stradishall 10 January-5 April 1943: Gransden Lodge: Short term detachments to St Eval, Predannack and to Lossiemouth as required. Detachments to Blida, N Africa 7th February to 21st April 1943 and 27th April to 7th September 1943. 5 April-25 November 1943: Feltwell Detachment to Chivenor (Coastal Command) 7th - 15th May and 25th June – 27th July 1943 Short term detachments to St Eval, Davidstow Moor, Wick and to Lossiemouth as required. Detachment to Lossiemouth 5th -23rd September 1943. 25 November 1943-22 August 1945: Foulsham Short term detachments to Davidstow Moor, St Eval, Chivenor and Ford as required. Detachment to Ford 18th -27rd May 1944 Detachment to Lossiemouth 31st August – 5th September 1944   4th July 1942 Specialist Flights designated 10th July 1942 Special Wireless Unit relocated 9th October 1942 German wireless comms investigation 11th October 1942 Sweep over Bay of Biscay 28th October 1942 Sweeps from St Eval 11th November 1942 Wireless investigation from Lossiemouth 20th November 1942 Wireless investigations from Cornwall 28th November 1942 Special duties Flight receives Mosquitos 3rd December 1942 Radio investigation flight seeks to provoke fighter attack 18th December 1942 Wellington lost on wireless test flight 4th January 1943 Wireless investigation squadron formed 25th January 1943 Wellington crashed on first flight 26th January 1943 Operations resumed 7th February 1943 Aircraft and crew detached to the Med 7th March 1943 Investigation Flights from Cornwall and Scotland 5th April 1943 Relocated 21st April 1943 Aircraft and crew return from the Med 27th April 1943 New detachments 3rd May 1943 Air crews flown to N Africa 7th May 1943 Special Wireless Investigations 26th May 1943 Wellington lost over the Ruhr 23rd June 1943 Wellington lost on special wireless investigation flight 25th June 1943 Detachment to Coastal Command 27th July 1943 Return from detachment 5th August 1943 Wellington ditched in Bay of Biscay 11th August 1943 Mosquito missing over Bay of Biscay 15th August 1943 Ditched in the Bay of Biscay 5th September 1943 Detachment to Lossiemouth 7th September 1943 Detachment returned from N. Africa 14-17th September 1943 Flights to the Artic Circle 18th October 1943 USAAF Observers 7th November 1943 Liberator crew attached to 192 Squadron 11th November 1943 Crash on landing 16th November 1943 Liberator crew to go overseas 18th November 1943 Halifax crashed on landing 25th November 1943 Signals Squadron relocated December 1943 Operations 26th January 1944 1473 Flight absorbed into 192 Squadron 15th February 1944 Operations and additional aircrew 19th March 1944 Wellington lost without trace 25th February 1944 Special Radio Counter Measures Flight disbanded 26th March 1944 Wellington lost off Cromer 24th April 1944 Halifax shot down over Antwerp 27th April 1944 Halifax lands on top of Mosquito 3rd May 1944 Railway Targets 24th May 1944 Halifax lost over Belgium 27th May 1944 Halifax shoots down fighter 2nd June 1944 Special Ops Halifax claims fighter shot down 5th June 1944 Monitoring enemy radio signals 7th June 1944 Monitoring radio transmissions 10th June 1944 Maximum effort 4th July 1944 Halifax Lost 31st July 1944 Daylight operations 12th August 1944 18 operations 18th August 1944 USAAF liaison officer posted 23rd August 1944 New flight added 26th August 1944 Mosquito lost over Germany 31st August 1944 Detachment 1st September 1944 USAAF flight attached to 192 Squadron 12th September 1944 Continuous radio monitoring 13th September 1944 More USAAF crews attached to 192 Squadron 23rd September 1944 Mosquito crashed on test flight 1st October 1944 V2 rocket investigations 3rd October 1944 New aircrew arrive 5th October 1944 WINDOW dropped 26th October 1944 USAAF Lightning lost over North Sea 21st November 1944 Airmen murdered 27th November 1944 Mosquito missing 27th November 1944 Operations 16th December 1944 Wellington crews convert to the Halifax 18th December 1944 FIDO used to land in fog 7th January 1945 Last Wellington operation by bomber command 10th January 1945 Wellington crews posted 4th February 1945 Airborne Mandrel jamming 8th February 1945 Halifax destroyed in mid-air collision 19th February 1945 Encounter with enemy fighters yields vaulable radio information 23rd February 1945 Wireless Investigation aircraft lost 4th March 1945 Halifax shot down by intruder 5/6th March 1945 Crash Landing 7th March 1945 Special Radio operator shot 2nd May 1945 Last operational sorties If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Logbooks Do you have a WW2 Flying Log Book in your possession? If so it would be a huge help if you could add logbook entries to our new database. Thank you. View Logbook entries Those known to have served with No. 192 Squadron Royal Air Force during the Second World War 1939-1945. Aiston Aidan. P/O. Banks John Francis. F/Lt. Barber DFC. Alan Victor James. F/O. Cromar DFM. Donald. F/Sgt (d.3rd Jan 1944) Crotch DFC. John. Sdq. Ldr Fernbank DFC. Edmund Pius. P/O. Fisher Jack Glen Millan. F/O (d.27th November 1944) Goode John Leonard. Herrington William Mark. P/O. (d.24th June 1943) Hilling Bertie Edward. F/Sgt. Hilton Vaughan Thomas. Jones Edward Antwerp. W/O. Jones Edward Antwerpe. W/O. Mortimer Lester Lloyd. F/O. (d.25th April 1944) Musty MID. Percy. F/Sgt. Pearson Ray Sidney. Tech Sgt. Raizenne Edouard. F/O. Sessions Leslie James. Sgt Shields James. Sgt. (d.25th May 1944) Smith Leonard William. Sgt. Vinnell Henry Victor Alexander. Fl/Lt. (d.27th Novmber 1944) wigley harold stanley. Wilson Thomas William Spencer. Woods Brian Frederick. Sgt. (d.9th February 1945) Young Frederick James. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of No. 192 Squadron Royal Air Force from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. Announcements 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time. The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 25 years. 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If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the War? Our Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to WW2. We would like to obtain digital copies of any documents or photographs relating to WW2 you may have at home. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. World War 1 One ww1 wwII second 1939 1945 battalion Did you know? We also have a section on The Great War. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. Want to know more about No. 192 Squadron Royal Air Force? There are:2080 items tagged No. 192 Squadron Royal Air Force available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. Frederick James Young 192 Squadron My Father Frederick James Young passed away in 2004 having kept many of his WW2 memories to himself. However I do have his flying log book detailing his training in Lethbridge, Alberta (April to June 1943) and his subsequent time with 192 Squadron (Special Duty Operations) based at Foulsham (April to October 1944) where he served as an Air Bomber. He completed his tour of operations (40 1/2 operational sorties) flying Wellingtons with F/Lt Dixon on 21st October 1944. Clifford Young Add to this record. Sgt. Leonard William Smith 192 Squadron Bill Smith served with 192 Squadron. He died in 1963. Add to this record. Thomas William Spencer "Tug" Wilson 192 Squadron Tom Wilson, who has died aged 97, was a British RAF Officer who played the violin to cover the noise of sand dispersal during the celebrated Wooden Horse escape by tunnel from Stalag Luft 3. On 29th of October 1943 three escaped through the tunnel and successfully made their way to Sweden. Tom flew as a navigator in modified Wellington bombers whose role was to gather electronic intelligence on German air defence and radar communication systems. His aircraft was shot down over The Hague on May 26th 1943 and after parachuting down was captured and taken to Stalag Luft 3 in Silesia. In 1945 as German opposition crumbled Tom and his fellow officers were taken first to Nuremburg and then by forced march to Stalag Luft VIIa at Moosburg in Bavaria. On 29th of April 1945 the camp was liberated by American troops. There were no rations and Tom, with a group of fellow officers, rounded up the Kommandant's herd of swine which the famished prisoners made short work of. After the war Tom switched from engineering to take a degree in Russian and German and became a language teacher, first at The Royal Liberty School where I was fortunate to be one of his pupils and later as Headmaster of Coleshill Grammar School. He was born in December 1920 and died November 2018. David Wilson (No relation) Add to this record. F/Lt. John Francis Banks 192 Squadron John Banks qualified as an air bomber on 19th of June 1943. He studied Navigation and map reading in Anson planes at AFU Wigtown to 6th of January 1944, the transferred to No 84 OTU at Harrington where he was flying Wellington bombers with pilot F/O Clarkson. No 84 OTU moved to Desborough on 3rd of March 1944 John and his crewmates joined 192 Squadron at Foulsham on the 7th of April 1944, they flew sorties to Bay of Biscay Channel, the Western Approaches, over the North Sea, Dutch coast, French coast and the Frisians in a Wellington Bomber. He completed one operational tour of 40 sorties. John transferred to 221 Group on the 1st of June 1945 flying Dakotas from Rangoon over Burma. In October he joined 47 Squadron flying Mosquitos as a navigator and was demobbed in 1946. Add to this record. F/Sgt. Percy Musty MID. 192 Squadron Flight Sergeant Percy Musty was in charge of ground maintenance for A Flight, 192 Squadron. John Add to this record. F/O. Alan Victor James "Ali Baba" Barber DFC. 264 Squadron Alan Barber started in the RAF as LAC and worked his way up to Flt Lt, Navigator Instructor. I remember having his log book many years ago. The missions seemed few but the aircraft I can remember were: Annie Anson, Whitely, Wellington, Mosquito. Unfortunately I have no photos. David Barber Add to this record. Vaughan Thomas Hilton 192 Squadron Vaughan Hilton served as a wireless operator with 192 Squadron. John Hilton Add to this record. P/O. William Mark Herrington 192 Squadron (d.24th June 1943) Billy Herrington was a Constable in the Liverpool City Police before the war, on the beat in the City's notorious D Division, where every Saturday night constables would find themselves fighting for their title. Information from Shaun R Rothwell, Inspector (Retired), Merseyside Police. On behalf of the Liverpool City Police website. Add to this record. W/O. Edward Antwerpe "Taf" Jones 192 Squadron Edward Jones flew as a navigator with 192 Squadron. Add to this record. F/O. Lester Lloyd Mortimer 192 (Special) Sqdn. (d.25th April 1944) My uncle Lester Mortimer enlisted in the Air Force against his mother's wishes. She was a pacifist. He joined on April 30th, 1942 and was married on 23rd January 1943. After a two-week honeymoon he shipped out to Halifax from where he was sent to England. He died in the bombing of Karlsruhe, Germany at the age of 22. He is buried in Antwerp and the family always assumed that he died there. With the help of the Internet we now know differently. His squadron was assigned to test radar blocking devices. And to quote this site: No 192 Squadron flew more sorties and suffered more losses than any other RCM squadron. His evaluations describe him as an intelligent and very personable fellow. He was a great loss to our family. Doris Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices. Espionage in the Ether - the Wartime Story of Electronic Intelligence and Radio Countermeasures Carried Out By 192 Bomber Support Squadron William J Rees & John E Rees More information on: Espionage in the Ether - the Wartime Story of Electronic Intelligence and Radio Countermeasures Carried Out By 192 Bomber Support Squadron Links Suggest a link

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