Bomber Country - Lest we Forget 6 Traditional Geocache
Bomber Country - Lest we Forget 6
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RAF Wickenby, 12 and 626 Squadrons. This is a magnetic Nano Cache, bring your own pencil.
The cache is NOT on the memorial, PLEASE RESPECT IT.
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RAF Wickenby
Opened: early 1943
Subordinate to 14 Base: 16 Dec 1943
Closed: flying ceased shortly after war's end, closed 1956, now home to a civilian air club
Units based here:
12 Sqn: Sep 1942 - 24 Sep 1945
"Leads the Field"
626 Sqn: 7 Nov 1943 - 14 Oct 1945
"To strive and not to yield"
93 MU (Maintenance Unit): = 1946 - ??
Vulcan B2: 1962 - 1967
Tornado: - present
12 Squadron was formed on 14 February 1915 at Netheravon. Its fox emblem was taken from its full squadron crest, which in turn came from the fact that this squadron was the only one to use the Fairey Fox biplane. The motto Leads The Field is because the Fairey Fox bomber was faster than the fighters then in service.
12 Sqn arrived at Binbrook from Finningley in early July 1940 flying Fairy Battles, but converted to Wellington bombers in Nov 1940. In April 1941 12 Sqn sent 28 aircraft on the first of the bomber raids targetting Cologne. In 1942 12 Sqn moved to Wickenby and converted to Lancasters while concrete runways were constructed at Binbrook, returning there on 24 Sep 1945. It was disbanded in 1961 but reformed in 1962 at Coningsby with the Vulcan B2 Bomber. In 1964 it moved to Cottesmore, staying until 1967 when the primacy of the Royal Navy in generating Britain's nuclear deterrent began to take its toll on the Vulcan Sqns.
626 Squadron - "To strive and not to yield"
Formed: 7 Nov 1943
Disbanded: ??
Squadron was based at:
RAF Wickenby: 7 Nov 1943 -
Squadron code: UM
Aircraft operated:
Lancaster Mk I, Mk III: Nov 1943 -
Additional Hints
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