It comprised personnel from Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the Netherlands, the squadron served in the light bomber role, undertaking operations over France and the Low Countries, from bases in England.

464 Squadron was initially equipped with Lockheed Ventura medium bombers, and participated in its first operation on 6 December.

Dubbed Operation Oyster, it was an attack on the Philips radio valve factory at Eindhoven, in the Netherlands.

The squadron lost three aircraft to anti-aircraft fire during the attack, but inflicted significant damage on the target.

[14] Concerns about the vulnerability of the Ventura, however, led to their withdrawal and in July, the squadron was re-equipped with the more suitable de Havilland Mosquito.

This reputation lead it to be selected for Operation Jericho, which was the first of a number of precision attacks that the squadron made on Gestapo targets in occupied Europe.

In this mission, aircraft from the squadron formed part of the force which breached the walls of a Gestapo prison at Amiens, France on 18 February 1944 allowing members of the French Resistance to escape.

[16] The squadron continued to attack transport and communications targets from June 1944 to support the invasion; in this role it was a prominent part of the Australian contribution to the Battle of Normandy.

464 Squadron, based at RAF Gravesend in Kent, attacked and destroyed a train composed of at least eleven petrol tankers that was parked at the rail sidings at Châtellerault.

464 Squadron flew 400 sorties, concentrating mainly upon carrying out night-time attacks on German transports and infrastructure in France.

464 Squadron moved from England to France in February 1945 and, based out of Rosières-en-Santerre, continued day and night bombing missions.

The following month, on 21 March in Operation Carthage, six of the squadron's Mosquitos attacked Gestapo headquarters at the Shellhus in Copenhagen, Denmark, heavily damaging the building while losing two aircraft.

464 Squadron aircraft carried German Colonel General Alfred Jodl and a number of other prominent officials to Berlin.

[5] The RAAF Historical Section has written that its aircraft flew "3,067 sorties, 7,967 operational hours and 1,835,008 miles".