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 home crews roll of honour messages lost aircraft site search 626 squadron 626 squadron and raf wickenby 626 squadron lost aircraft during raf wickenby's short active service 1080 lives were lost from the base. this sacrifice is commemorated by a memorial with the form of icarus on an obelisk at the entrance to the airfield. today the site is a private airfield used as an aviation school and is home to the raf wickenby memorial museum.it was the home of 12 squadron and 626 squadron of no 1 group, raf bomber command. during hostilities, over 300 operations were flown from the airfield with 166 bombers reported missing, all but six being lancasters. another 30 aircraft were lost in operational crashes. 626 squadron was formed in november 1943 with two flights of eight aircraft. 'a' flight was originally 12 squadron's 'c' flight and 'b' flight was made up from lancasters arriving from factories and other units.its first operation was to bomb the western entrance to the montcenis tunnel in the french alps on the 10th of november 1943. in total the number of sorties flown by 626 squadron were 2728. aircraft lost on operations 49 and non-operational losses 11. it bombed 187 targets and laid mines in 18 areas. operations board sgt tom bint & hk539 wickenby archives wartime friesland islands wickenby airfield plan bomber command photos wickenby groundcrews 12 squadron's losses over holland some of 626 sqdn's crews deanweb if you start a major world war you expect to get a bloody nose. any country that was faced with nazi germany did everything it could to make sure that they lost. it's always unfortunate when people get killed, particularly civilians and children, but you should not start wars. we did what was absolutely necessary. we did a great deal in shortening the length of that war. i don't think any one of those young men who died would have felt any differently. i didn't expect to survive, not in any morbid way, but because i felt i was doing something that had to be done in order to save this country from a fate worse than death. war is horrible; war is immoral. but you fight it the way you can. look what happens to innocent civilians when armies roll across great territories and take cities. how many civilians died at stalingrad? outside moscow? or leningrad? we were fighting one of the most immoral entities on the planet, and we had to fight it the best way we could. i just cannot and will never accept that bombing germany was immoral.' air marshal sir john curtiss kcb - bomber command navigator a see youtube video an interesting story about a vase emerged in november 2010 involving 626 squadron bomb-aimer f/o william howe newman who had joined 12 squadron as a pilot officer in june 1943. he had flown as part of w/o e. w smith's crew and was with the eight lancasters brought in from 12 squadron's 'c' flight in november 1943 to form 626 squadron's 'a' flight, with squadron leader roden as their flight commander. having already flown 22 missions with 12 squadron, bill had only eight more to complete with 626. his first trip at the new squadron was on the 18th of november with w/o smith in dv177 and the beginning of the battle of berlin. on the 28th of january 1944 he successfully ended his operational tour in lancaster jb599 flying with twelve other aircraft from 626 squadron again raiding their least favourite target, berlin. (see crews page for w/o smith's crew) an account has already been related in dennis west's interesting book, 'to strive and not to yield', describing bill's part in the origins of 626's squadron crest. "one person of note was f/o bill newman. he was an ex-12 squadron bomb aimer and thought it was right and proper that the new 626 squadron should have a badge and motto, so he took it upon himself to bring this about and give the squadron an identity. the inspiration for the badge and motto came from bill's schooldays and his interest in museums and art. tennyson's poem 'ulysses' had stuck in his mind and the last line seemed to be what he was looking for. after a slight alteration so that it would fit on the space provided on an raf badge, "to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield" was altered by bill to read "to strive and not to yield". the next part was the badge itself and here bill's knowledge of museums came into play. keeping with the theme of the motto, he paid a visit to the british museum to find out about greek galleys of the type ulysses would have sailed, according to mythology. at this time in 1943 the museum exhibits were long removed to a safe place to escape the blitz, but help was at hand in the form of mr norman keyte of the department of greek and roman antiquities. he had photographed everyone of the pieces in his charge before placing them in safe custody. after sifting through volumes of catalogues and photographs, bill came across what he was looking for: a picture of a vase made in 460 bc, with ulysses and his ship painted on the side. the painting on the curvature on the vase suited the format of the raf badge and with a little adaptation bill's idea became a reality. 626 squadron had a badge. " fast forward to november 2010 and the ultimate ' cash in the attic' story – the chinese vase that sold for £53.1 million at auction. tony and gene johnson watched in astonishment as the price for their porcelain artefact soared to 40 times its estimate in a west london saleroom packed with chinese bidders less than two weeks ago. it had been discovered in a house clearance of a modest suburban semi in the london suburb of pinner following the death of mrs gene johnson’s sister, patricia newman, whose husband bill had been the owner. patricia newman died in january 2010 and the estate was passed to her 85 year old widowed sister, gene. the 18th century 16 inch high porcelain vase from the qing - pronounced ching - dynasty fetched the highest price for any chinese artwork sold at auction. it had belonged to decorated wartime 626 squadron officer bill newman and kept on a wobbly bookcase in his living room and insured for just £800. when bill, a retired office supervisor, died in june 2006, he left the house and its contents to his wife. the estate, including the vase, was valued at a mere £135,000. how the 1740 qing dynasty artefact originally came into bill's possession remains a mystery but friends say he had an ‘adventurer uncle’ who spent the inter-war years of the 1920s and 1930s travelling the world and left it to the family with a remarkable collection of mementoes, maps, antique travel books and ornaments. it was probably stolen when china’s imperial palaces were ransacked by british troops during the 19th century opium wars. a forgotten fact about raf wickenby is that for a short period of time it was home to 109 squadron. this mosquito squadron moved there from raf woodhall spa during october 1945, but after staying only one month they left wickenby and went to a more permanent base at raf hemswell on the 27th of november. artist and author, squadron leader jack currie (1921-96) jack currie's time with both 12 and 626 squadrons are described in his popular book 'lancaster target'. he arrived at snelland halt by lner train en route to raf wickenby on sunday june 27th 1943. currie's first operation was as second pilot to one of the squadron's more experienced pilots, f/lt benjamin mclaughlin dfc, on a bombing operation to cologne on 3rd july 1943. his first operation with his own crew was a mine-laying operation in the bay of biscay in ed414 (easy 2) on 6th july 1943. an author of highly successful books about the raf's bomber offensive during the second world war including the augsburg raid battle, under the moon, and round the clock (co-wrote with philip kaplan). he also wrote three books about his own wartime experiences - wings over georgia, mosquito victory, and lancaster target the last of which brought him to the notice of an even wider audience when it was turned into an award-winning b

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