Arrived at RAF Bradwell Bay 15/04/1942
Departed RAF Bradwell Bay 15/03/1943
Aircraft Flown at Bradwell Bay Boston lll Havoc
Squadron Code TH
© IWM CH 7210
418 Was a relatively newly formed squadron of the Royal Canadian Airforce. They had formed at RAF Debden but were scheduled to move to RAF Bradwell Bay which was in the finishing stages of construction.
They moved into RAF Bradwell on 15th April 1942 and was the longest serving squadron at Bradwell. They left to go to Ford on 15th March 1943. The first operational flight from RAF Bradwell Bay was on 16th April 1942, when a crew of three took off at 2154 for an intruder raid to Gilz Rigen airfield in the Netherlands, intruder raids were the main work of 418 Squadron.
The squadron was very much linked in personnel and experience with 23 Squadron. Being the longest serving squadron at Bradwell Bay and due to the dangerous nature of intruder raids the squadron lost a high number of aircrew.