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No.49 Sqn RAF Founded : 15th April 1916
Cave canem - Beware of the dog 49 Squadron was formed on 15th April 1916, during the First World War. In the course of the war, it flew DH4 and DH9 aircraft before disbanding in July 1919. Reformed in 1936, they flew Hind and Hampdens before war broke out in 1939. It was in a Hampden of 49 Sqn that Roderick Learoyd won the first Victoria Cross awarded to Bomber Command, when on the night of 12th August 1940, he and four other aircraft attempted to breach the heavily defended Dortmund-Ems canal. The squadron transferred to Manchesters and Lancasters, and after the war to Lincolns, before being disbanded once again on 1st August 1955. Less than a year later, on 1st May 1956, the squadron were reformed, equipped with Valiant V-Bombers of Britain's nuclear deterrent programme, but exactly nine years later, with the aircraft grounded, the squadron disbanded for the last time. |
No.49 Sqn RAF
No.49 Sqn RAF Artwork Collection |
Clipped Signature - Eric Jones. | Clipped Signature - Leslie Hay. | Clipped Signature - Robert Souter. |
Clipped Signature - Ernest Webb. | Clipped Signature - Roderick Learoyd VC. | Clipped Signature - Ken Hubbard. |
Clipped Signature - John Haskins. | Clipped Signature - Ralph Briars. | Ops On Hold by Richard Taylor. |
Home at Dawn by Nicolas Trudgian. | Handley Page Hampden by Keith Woodcock. |