The story
Introduced the Ventura to operational service and flew more Ventura sorties than any other squadron.
23 SQUADRON
SERVICE
Returned from duty as a fighter squadron in Italy and posted to 100 Group as a Serrate and Intruder squadron and flew in those roles from July 1944 until the end of the war. Equipped with Mosquitoes and based at Little Snoring.
OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE
Carried out 70 Serrate and 125 Intruder operations (although it is sometimes difficult to differentiate between the two types of operation); also carried out 8 daylight bomber-escort operations. Flew 1,067 sorties and lost 8 aircraft (0.7 percent). Claimed 3 enemy aircraft destroyed and 1 damaged in the air and 15 aircraft destroyed on the ground; also carried out numerous bomb and cannon-fire attacks on airfields and railways.
35 (MADRAS PRESIDENCY) SQUADRON
SERVICE
A bomber training unit on the outbreak of war, later absorbed into an O.T.U. Reformed as a bomber squadron in 4 Group on
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