160 Squadron RAF

160 Squadron was originally formed at Thurleigh in England on Jan. 16, 1942.
The ground crew were posted to the India on February 12, 1942, arriving without their aircraft.
The squadron's aircraft were flown to Palestine in early June, 1942, from where they carried out raids on Lybia and Crete.
Aircraft started leaving for India in October; some aircraft remained and were absorbed into 178 Sqn.
Initial operations in India were patrols over the Bay of Bengal.
The squadron moved to Ceylon and was engaged in shipping protection flights, minelaying, and photographic reconnaissance over Sumatra and the Nicobar Islands.
In June 1945 the squadron converted to special duties, dropping agents and supplies over Malaya and Sumatra.
After VJ day the squadron carried out transport duties.
The squadron was returned to England on June 15, 1946 where it briefly converted to Lancaster GR3's until disbandment on Sept. 30, 1946
The squadron only flew Liberator aircraft; Mk's II, III, V, VI, and VIII during WWII.

Information provided by Les Crawley

160 Squadron Honour Role

Information from the Official Records

Report on the ditching of BZ828

All records for 1942, by month, with index of names as a PDF file
(note: draft format, with some "?" marks where it was hard to transcribe; most of these records pertain to operations in the U.K. and M.E.)

All records for 1943, by month, with index of names as a PDF file
(note: draft format, with very little editing of the transcription done so far)

All records for 1944, by month, with index of names as a PDF file
(note: draft format, with some ‘?’ marks where it was hard to transcribe)

All records for 1945, by month, with index of names as PDF file
(note: draft format; Forms 540 and 541 are "getting there", but the appendices need a lot of work)

All records for 1946, by month, with index of names as PDF file
(note: draft format -- post war records have few details of flights)

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Last updated November 2, 2008