Wilhelm Mohr

Wilhelm Mohr. On World War II
impatience and overconfidence and British trust. Although there was
some initial success, undue losses caused Costal Command to enforce a
temporary non-operational status for intensive training purposes. The
results were encouraging and by mid-November 1943 the flight was
again made operational.
The time that followed was mainly devoted to reconnaissance along
the Norwegian coast, attacking German aircraft and ships, and searching
for submarines that to a large extent depended on the North Sea.
After the invasion on the Continent, some Costal Command aircraft
that had previously been employed in the Bay of Biscay and the English
Channel were transferred to 18 Group Banff and Gallachy for strike
operations against German ships along the Norwegian coast. The Norwegian
Mosquitos were then deployed to Banff to assist this RAF strike
force, either as «outriders» for target search and identification, or as a
guiding element for the strike itself. On such operations the crew’s intimate
knowledge of geography and conditions proved to be most valuable.
In early 1945 the Air Ministry proposed that the two flights of the
squadron be formed as two independent squadrons, but this was not
carried out while the war was in progress.
333 squadron («A» and «B» flights) was credited by the RAF with 4
submarines sunk, 8 damaged, 18 German aircraft destroyed and 2 damaged.
It performed 22 special missions to Norway and North Russia.
28 members of the aircrew were lost, and 4 taken prisoner.
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