No. 8 (PFF) Group RAF | |
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Active | 1 April 1918 - 15 May 1919 1 September 1941 - 28 January 1942 13 January 1943 – 15 December 1945 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Branch | Royal Air Force |
Type | Royal Air Force group |
Role | Pathfinder Force |
Part of | RAF Bomber Command |
Group Headquarters | Brampton Grange (September 1941 - January 1942) RAF Wyton (January 1943 - May 1943) Castle Hill House, Huntingdon (May 1943 - December 1945) |
Motto(s) | We Guide to strike[1] |
Commanders | |
Notable commanders | Air Vice Marshal Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett CB, CBE, DSO |
Insignia | |
Group badge | A Mullet of eight points surmounted by an arrow enflamed, point downwards, in bend sinister[1] The star and eight points represent the number 8 group and the astro-navigation undertaken by its crews. The flaming arrow was meant to demonstrate their Pathfinding role[2] |
No. 8 Group RAF (8 Gp) was a Royal Air Force group which existed during the final year of the First World War and during the Second World War.