Find out all about the short operational life of 298 Squadron, how they earn their motto “Silent we strike”, and some stories of the people who flew and those who kept them flying.
Find out how the squadron was formed and who served in it.
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Airfield opens in summer of 1943
After a year of intense construction, the three concrete runways were ready to receive the first aircraft. Halifax bombers used as glider tugs made the short hop over from Hurn near Bournemouth to form 298 and shatter the silence of this remote Dorset landscape.
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The people behind the squadron
We can tell the story of this squadron well enough through its many operations and achievements.
It is only through its brave men and women can we really understand what it was like at Tarrant Rushton in 1944.
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The squadron disbanded
No sooner had the squadron badge been placed in St. Clement Dane church than it falls victim to the post war shrinking of the Royal Air Force.
In September 1945 it left Tarrant Rushton for India.
