No. 617 Squadron RAF at Marham. On the 6th August 2018 5 more F-35B's arrived at RAF Marham in Norfolk for 617 Squadron. List of aircraft operated by No. 617 Squadron. Fortress Europe 1943-1945, The Dams, Biscay Ports 1944, France and Germany 1944-1945, Normandy 1944, "Tirpitz", Channel and North Sea 1944-1945, German Ports 1945, Gulf 1991, Iraq 2003-2011. The following men have commanded 617 Squadron: No. 617 Squadron RAF Number 617 Squadron is a Royal Air Force aircraft squadron, based at RAF Marham in Norfolk. It is commonly known as the "Dambusters", for its actions during Operation Chastise against German dams during the Second
RAF Carlisle The station was unusual within the RAF as there were no other ranks or NCOs stationed at RAF Carlisle, only a small cadre of 12 - 15 RAF Supply Branch officers who controlled a civilian workforce of storekeepers and warehousemen. RAF Carlisle was just one in a chain of several Maintenance Units forming RAF Support Command, later to become RAF Logistics Command in 1994. Logistics Command was faced with a contracting airforce that had less airfields, less aircraft and less personnel. The logical answer was a reduction in the number of maintenance units and 14 MU was the farthest flung