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Number 23 Operational Training Unit<\/span><\/strong> was formed in April 1941 at RAF Pershore<\/a> as part of Number 6 Group<\/a> RAF Bomber Command<\/a> to train night bomber crews using the Vickers Wellington<\/a>. \u00a0It carried out three operational sorties during 1942 and was disbanded in March 1944 with most of the aircraft moving to Number 22 Operational Training Unit.<\/p>\n

No. 6 Group RCAF<\/b><\/span>\u00a0oversaw the\u00a0Royal Canadian Air Force<\/a>\u00a0(RCAF)\u00a0heavy bomber<\/a>squadrons in Europe during the\u00a0Second World War<\/a>, between 1942 and 1945. The\u00a0group<\/a>operated out of airfields in\u00a0Yorkshire<\/a>,\u00a0England<\/a>. There was technically no\u00a06 Group RAF<\/b>during the Second World War, although a unit by that name had been previously active in the RAF, in: 1918; 1924\u201326, and 1936\u201339 (when it was a training unit).[2]<\/a><\/sup>[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

The group was made up of\u00a0Article XV squadrons<\/a>: RCAF units formed under the\u00a0British Commonwealth Air Training Plan<\/a>, for service with British operational formations; hence No. 6 Group was part of\u00a0Royal Air Force<\/a>\u00a0(RAF)\u00a0Bomber Command<\/a>. However, a significant number of personnel from the RAF,\u00a0Royal Australian Air Force<\/a>\u00a0(RAAF),\u00a0Royal New Zealand Air Force<\/a>\u00a0(RNZAF) and other Allied air forces were attached to 6 Group during the war.<\/p>\n

RAF Bomber Command<\/b><\/span>\u00a0controlled the\u00a0RAF<\/a>‘s bomber forces from 1936 to 1968. Along with the\u00a0United States Army Air Forces<\/a>, it played the central role in the\u00a0strategic bombing of Germany in World War II<\/a>. From 1942 onward, the British bombing campaign against Germany became\u00a0less restrictive<\/a>\u00a0and increasingly targeted industrial sites and the civilian manpower base essential for German war production. In total 364,514 operational sorties were flown, 1,030,500 tons of bombs were dropped and 8,325 aircraft lost in action. Bomber Command crews also suffered a high casualty rate: 55,573 were killed out of a total of 125,000 aircrew (a 44.4 percent death rate), a further 8,403 were wounded in action and 9,838 became prisoners of war.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Vickers Wellington<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0was a\u00a0British<\/a>\u00a0twin-engined, long range\u00a0medium bomber<\/a>\u00a0designed in the mid-1930s at\u00a0Brooklands<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Weybridge, Surrey<\/a>, by\u00a0Vickers-Armstrongs<\/a>‘ Chief Designer,\u00a0Rex Pierson<\/a>\u00a0in response to specification B.9\/32. Issued in the middle of 1932, this called for a twin-engined day bomber<\/a> of higher performance than any previous design. It was widely used as a night\u00a0bomber<\/a>\u00a0in the early years of the\u00a0Second World War<\/a>, before being superseded as a bomber by the larger four-engined “heavies” such as the\u00a0Avro Lancaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Wellington continued to serve throughout the war in other duties, particularly as an\u00a0anti-submarine aircraft<\/a>. It was the only British bomber to be produced for the duration of the war and was still first-line equipment when the war ended. The Wellington was one of two bombers named after\u00a0Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington<\/a>, the other being the\u00a0Vickers Wellesley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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