On This Day, 1944: On 4 August 1944, Squadron Leader Ian Bazalgette saved crewmen after a V-1 marking raid, earning a posthumous…
Read the entry →From the first RFC squadrons of the Western Front to today's fast jet and remotely-piloted units — the numbered squadrons of the Royal Air Force.
Uno animo agimus — We act with one mind
How 35 Squadron moved from heavy-bomber operations into the Pathfinder Force and became part of Bomber Command’s specialist target-marking story.





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