Listed below is the information available for this servicemen who served in 550 Squadron.
Serviceman Details: The column headers should be fairly self-explanatory. The final column (Web links) contains, where given, links to other items on this web-site or indeed to external sources where further information or photographs, etc can be found.
Aircraft: When a link to a particular aircraft is given, this only indicates aircraft it is known the crewman was associated with (such as when flight logs are available or the aircraft has failed to return from an operation). It does not exclude the fact that the crewman may well have flown on other aircraft too, that is either just not documented in the currently available records or simply not known to the author. The aircraft links will take you to the operations listed for that aircraft.
Note that the vast bulk of the information available about squadron servicemen presented below concerns air-crew; almost no information is available about the men, and women, of the technical and other ground crews who played their part in making the squadron an effective fighting unit. This is a shame, given the key role they played in keeping the aircraft in the air and the men flying them able to do their job. So if you have ground-crew information do please send it in so that it too can be included in the squadron record.
Definitions of the abbreviations used are available: here.
| Serviceman Details | Aircraft | Rank | Initials (First Name) |
Last Name | Decorations | Service | Service No. | Role | Flight | Other Information | Links | FTR? | Date | Service Number |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/O | N S ( Norman Stanley) |
Rogers | DFC | RAF | 172215 | P | - | Posted from 550 Sqdn to 86 O.T.U. on 1.7.44 [Ed. P/O Rogers and crew appear very early in the bombing record for the squadron (23rd Dec 1943), so possibly came on to 550 Sqdn on start-up from 100 Sqdn, but no transfer-in record has been found in the ORB.] London Gazette (Publication date:31 March 1944 Supplement:36451 Page:1541) Appointment to commission. As Pit. Offs. on prob. (emergency): of Sgt 1452072 Norman Stanley ROGERS (172215). London Gazette (Publication date:15 August 1944 Supplement:36661 Page:3827) FRIDAY, 18 AUGUST, 1944 Awarded Distinguished Flying Cross Norman Stanley ROGERS (172215), R.A.F.V.R., 550 Sqn London Gazette (Publication date:5 September 1944 Supplement:36692 Page:4168). Confirmation and promotion. Pit. Offs. (prob.) confmd. in appts. and to be Fig. Offs. (war subs.): - 18th Aug. 1944. N. S. ROGERS (172215). Post-war Rev Norman Stanley Rogers DFC was a London Missionary Society missionary in Kashinda, Northern Rhodesia. |
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The details were last updated: 30 October 2025