No. 61 Squadron RAF

No. 61 Squadron RAF
Active24 Jul 1917 – 13 June 1919
8 March 1937 – 31 March 1958
CountryUnited Kingdom
BranchRoyal Air Force
Nickname(s)"Hull's 'own' Squadron"[1]
Motto(s)Latin: Per purum tonantes
("Thundering through the clear air")[2]
Mascot(s)The Lincoln Imp
Insignia
Squadron Badge heraldryThe Lincoln Imp
The figure associates the squadron with the county in which it was re-formed in 1937 and where it spent most of its active days in World War II.[2]
Squadron CodesLS (Mar 1939 – Sep 1939)[3][4]
QR (Sep 1939 – Apr 1951)[5][6]

No. 61 Squadron was a squadron of the Royal Air Force. It was first formed as a fighter squadron of the British Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. It was reformed in 1937 as a bomber squadron of the Royal Air Force and served in the Second World War and afterwards into the jet age, until disbanded in 1958.

  1. ^ Moyes 1976, pp. 93-95.
  2. ^ a b Rawlings 1978, p. 151.
  3. ^ Bowyer and Rawlings 1979, p. 12.
  4. ^ Flintham and Thomas 2003, p. 50.
  5. ^ Bowyer and Rawlings 1979, p. 86.
  6. ^ Flintham and Thomas 2003, p. 99.