Colonel Josef Ščerba was a telegraphist for a Czechoslovak RAF bomber squadron in Great Britain during the war, and after his plane was shot down he almost died in the North Sea and then suffered German captivity. After returning from England, he served briefly in the Czechoslovak army before the Communists expelled him from the army after February 1948.
No.333 (Norwegian) Squadron was a maritime patrol and special duties squadron that ended the war operating with the Banff strike wing. The squadron was formed from No.1477 Flight, a formation already manned by Norwegians, on 10 May 1943. From the start it operated a mix of Mosquitoes and Catalinas. The Mosquitoes were used for reconnaissance flights along the Norwegian coast, while the Catalinas flew patrols off the north coast of Scotland. The squadron had a second role flying agents and supplies to the Norwegian resistance.
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