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BACKGROUND
During the second World War , Royal Air Force Bomber Command eventually comprised of seven groups in the United Kingdom, strategically stationed near the east coast of England, broadly based as follows:
No 1 Group North Lincolnshire 14 Squadrons
No 3 Group East Anglia 11 Squadrons
No 4 Group South Yorkshire 10 Squadrons
No 5 Group South Lincolnshire 13 Squadrons
No 6 Group North Yorkshire 13 Squadrons (all RCAF)
No 8 Group Cambridgeshire 12 Squadrons
No 100 Group Norfolk 6 Squadrons
No 8 Group, formed in 1942, comprised of the 'Pathfinder Force' to provide specialist marking of targets. Also the 'Master Bombers' who positioned themselves over the target area to control attacks as they developed.
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