No. 619 Squadron RAF
619 Squadron RAF was a heavy bomber squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, flying Lancaster bombers from bases in Lincolnshire.
The squadron was formed out of elements of 97 Squadron[7][8] at RAF Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire on 18 April 1943, equipped with Lancaster Mk.III bombers, as part of 5 Group in Bomber Command.
The last operational mission was flown a day later, when 2 Lancasters laid mines in the Oslo Fjord near Horten.
After that mission the squadron ferried ex-prisoners of war back to the United Kingdom from Belgium (Operation Exodus).
[9] The squadron operated out of various Lincolnshire stations, before being disbanded at RAF Skellingthorpe on 18 July 1945.
Flying Officer P Ingleby, the navigator of a
Lancaster
of No. 619 Squadron based at
RAF Coningsby
, seated at his table in the aircraft
