This web site (first launched on 19th December 1999) was at first in remembrance of the webmasters uncle Sgt. Edmund Hurst, who was missing presumed dead on 14th August 1944. However it has grown and is now dedicated to all the Unsung Heroes who served with RAF 624 ( Special Duties ) Squadron formally 1575 flight.

The site is run & maintained on a completely voluntary basis and assisted by generous donations.

From May 1943 (1575 Flight - soon to become 624Squadron) flew, regularly at night over occupied Europe many times at less that 500 feet, delivering supplies and agents to the resistance groups in France, Poland, Corsica, Italy, Sardinia & Yugoslavia until September 1944. It's missions where top secret and each aircraft operated completely on it own for the entire duration of a mission.

The low level night flying in Specially Adapted Four Engined Heavy Bomber aircraft took a large toll in crews as can be seen in the Role of Honour section of this site. However their missions where vitally important in order to keep supplies flowing to the resistance workers on the ground so that they could carry out their vital job during the liberation of Europe of causing as much disruption as possible behind the German line.

These activities caused vital troops to be kept away from the front line, helped to destroy vital communication and infrastructure, as well as disrupting the flow of enemy troops and equipment around Europe.

As one old member of the Maquis said during a reunion in France during 2005 “It was only the sound of the Halifax aircraft coming over at night that kept their spirits up when they were being hunted down and tortured. For they new then that each aircraft would bring them more guns and ammunition with which they could fight to liberate their country and free their families”