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No. 189 Squadron RAF
No.189 Squadron was one of a number of Lancaster bomber squadrons in Bomber Command that re-formed in the autumn of 1944, Commencing operations in November.
The Squadron was reformed on 15 October 1944 as a Lancaster bomber squadron within No.5 Group. Its first operation was a raid on Homburg on 1 November 1944, and the squadron remained part of Bomber Command's main force to the end of the war.
Some of the squadron's aircraft were survivors of assignments to other squadrons earlier in their history. Amongst the older aircraft was Lancaster EE136, one of thirty four aircraft to make more than 100 sorties, in this case surviving 109 operations, many of them with No.9 Squadron.
The squadron suffered four operational losses in 1944 and fifteen in 1945, a comparatively high total.
No. 189 Squadron was among the 107 Lancasters and 12 Mosquitos of No 5 Group which attacked the oil refinery in Tonsberg in Southern Norway on 25 April 1945 in the last raid of the war flown by heavy bombers of RAF Bomber Command.
After the end of the war the squadron had a short period as a transport squadron, before disbanding on 20 November 1945.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._189_Squadron_RAF
https://www.historyofwar.org/air/units/RAF/189_wwII.html