No. 7 Mk 1 Multi-flash Bomb No. 8 Mk 1 Spotfire Bomb Squadrons and stations Between 1942 and 1945 No. 7 Squadron RAF - Stirling, then Lancaster No. 35 Squadron RAF - Halifax, then Lancaster No. 83 Squadron RAF - Lancaster No. 97 Squadron RAF - Lancaster No. 105 Squadron RAF - Mosquito No. 109 Squadron RAF - Wellington, then Mosquito - Oboe No. 128 Squadron RAF - Mosquito formed 1944 No. 139 Squadron RAF - Mosquito No. 142 Squadron RAF - Mosquito formed 1944 No. 156 Squadron RAF - Wellington, then Lancaster No. 162 Squadron RAF - Mosquito formed 1944 No. 163 Squadron RAF - Mosquito formed 1945 No. 405 Squadron RCAF - Halifax, then Lancaster No. 571 Squadron RAF - Mosquito formed 1944 No. 582 Squadron RAF - Lancaster formed 1944 No. 608 Squadron RAF - Mosquito formed 1944 No. 627 Squadron RAF - Mosquito formed 1943 No. 635 Squadron RAF - Lancaster formed 1944 No. 692 Squadron RAF - Mosquito formed 1944 83, 97 and 627 Squadrons passed to 5 Group in April 1944 Stations RAF Bourn RAF Downham Market RAF Graveley RAF Gransden Lodge RAF Little Staughton RAF Marham RAF Oakington RAF Upwood RAF Warboys RAF Wyton See also List of Royal Air Force groups RAF Bomber Command Aircrew of World War II Pathfinder March, an annual 46-mile (74 kilometre) long-distance walk around the County of Cambridgeshire, England, to perpetuate the memory of No. 8 (Pathfinder Force) Group Notes References Sources (Diary), "Campaign Diary, August 1942", Royal Air Force Bomber Command 60th Anniversary, RAF, 6 April 2005 (Pathfinder), "No. 8 (Pathfinder Force) Group", RAF Maynard, John Bennett and the Pathfinders, Arms and Armour London, 1996, Morris, Richard. Cheshire: The Biography of Leonard Cheshire, VC, OM. London: Viking Press, 2000. Further reading Bennett, D.C.T. Pathfinder. Goodall, 1988. . Stocker, Ted, DSO DFC. A Pathfinder's war. London: Grub Street, 2009. . External links Pathfinder Story - Part I - a 1946 Flight article on the Pathfinders by the magazine's editor, Wing Commander Maurice A Smith, DFC. Pathfinder Story - Part II Pathfinder from the IBCC Digital Archive at the University of Lincoln. Military units and formations in Huntingdonshire Military units and formations of the Royal Air Force