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	History of 218 Squadron RAF
		218 Squadron was formed at Dover on 24th April 1918 as a light bomber unit equipped with D.H. 9's and moved to France a month later to join the former RNAS squadrons based around Dunkirk.
		On 16 March 1936, No 218 reformed from A Flight of No. 57 Squadron at Upper Heyford with Harts, re-equipping with Battles in January 1938.
		By early June no aircraft were left and the squadron personnel were evacuated to the UK where re-equipment with Blenheims took place.
	www.harringtonmuseum.org.uk /218Sqdn.htm (295 words)

	History of Marine Corps Aviation
		The squadron was to receive basic flight training at the Army Aviation School at Hazelhurst Field, Mineola, L.I., N.Y. It would then move to the Army Advanced Flying School at Houston, Texas, and upon completion of that syllabus would be deployed to combat.
		On April 1, McIlvain's squadron arrived at the field from Lake Charles and, for the first time, the nucleus of the 1st Aviation Force was consolidated at one location.
		Squadrons A and B were located at landing field sites in Calais and Dunkirk, with Squadron C occupying a field near the town of La Fresne.
	www.acepilots.com /usmc/hist2.html (2286 words)

	B-25 Mitchell in Dutch Service
		No 19 Squadron had been formed in 1944 as NEI No. 1 Transport Squadron and in August 1945 was equipped with C-47s and about twelve B-25s that had been converted into transports.
		The Republic of Indonesia was declared on December 27, 1949, and No. 18 Squadron was disbanded in June of 1950.
		No 320 Squadron was reformed in 1949 as a naval patrol squadron of the Royal Dutch Navy.
	home.att.net /~jbaugher2/b25_23.html (2135 words)

	RAF History - Bomber Command 60th Anniversary
		No more than a landing ground when first used by the Hampdens of No. 14 OTU in 1940, it was soon developed into an independent airfield with the necessary fuel and bomb stores (in woodland to the north), two T2 hangars and, later, a B1 on the main technical site alongside the A1.
		The squadron had just converted to the Manchester and it spent a dismal winter on the airfield endeavouring to master this beast which was to produce the highest loss per sortie ratio of any other type used by Bomber Command.
		In March, No. 218 Squadron and its Stirlings were transferred in from Downham Market and conducted operations from Woolfox Lodge until soon after converting to Lancasters in late July, the squadron carrying out its last raid from the station on August 2.
	www.raf.mod.uk /bombercommand/s85.html (938 words)

	Sqn Histories 216-220_U
		The squadron was briefly reformed in an offensive role on 1 July 1979, equipped with Buccaneer S Mk 2s, however, structural problems with the Buccaneer resulted in a number of aircraft being scrapped and the need to reduce the number of squadrons.
		With the invasion of Malaya in the planning stage, the squadron was due to move to the Cocos Islands in preparation, but the dropping of the atomic bombs negated this action and it remained in Ceylon, where it disbanded on 30 September 1945.
		The squadron was reformed at Catterick on 4 October 1939 as a twin engined fighter unit, equipped with Blenheims.
	www.rafweb.org /Sqn216-220.htm (2731 words)

	British Military Aviation in 1943 -- Part 3
		No long-range fighter escort could be provided and as a consequence casualties amongst the attackers are heavy - sixty aircraft fail to return.
		RAF Bomber Command opens the preliminary phase of the 'Battle of Berlin' with a series of three major raids on the German capital.
		Flying Fortresses from the 422nd Bombardment Squadron participate in RAF Bomber Command attacks on a further seven occasions, culminating in a raid on Frankfurt-am-Main on the night of 4/5 October 1943, before the trial is discontinued.
	www.rafmuseum.org.uk /milestones-of-flight/british_military/1943_3.html (766 words)

	No. 218 Squadrons Home Run
		On arrival at the bottom of the terraces, Reid and Wardle proceeded along the road between the married quarters; at the end of the road was walled gate with barbed wire.
		On October 17th after a wash and shave Wardle and Reid set off on foot towards Penig, on reaching the town at 1730hrs they caught a train to Zwaickau, from where a connection was made for Munich, they arrived in Munich at 1900hrs.
		No information is known by the author of Howard Douglas Wardle R.A.F service after his return to England.
	www.goldcoastsquadron218.co.uk /page6.htm (1950 words)

	The Fairey Battle
		No fin flash is present, and no underwing roundels are present either.
		This particular example retained its RAF camouflage but had the RCAF serial applied on a patch of trainer yellow on the rear fuselage.
		Most RCAF Battles in training squadrons were finished as this one is, in a yellow-orange scheme.
	www.cbrnp.com /profiles/quarter2/battle.htm (534 words)

	New Zealand Serials -Vickers Wellington Mk I, IA
		Built by Vickers, Weybridge to Contract No. 549268/36 and delivered to the New Zealand Flight in August 1939.
		Returned to RAF service as L4311 with Central Gunnery School.
		Mk IA Built by Vickers, Weybridge to Contract No. 549268/36 and delivered between August and December 1939.
	www.adf-serials.com /nz-serials/nz301.shtml (578 words)

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	www.wwi-models.org /misc/HikokiBook.rtf (7619 words)

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		After that, up to a dozen fighter squadrons were based here for significant periods of time, while 18 more fighter squadrons were here for shorter periods, a couple of days up to a couple of months.
		RAF Charmy Down alongside the A46 road near Cold Ashton was set up in November 1940 as a Fighter Command station, and 125 Defiant Squadron moved to it in August 1941, joined by 87 Squadron with Hurricanes, and 263 and 137 Squadrons with Whirlwinds.
		No 218 MU formed in Mar 1942, and handled e,g, new Lancasters arriving from Canada, some of which were then sent back.
	www.chew76.fsnet.co.uk /colerne/colerne.html (932 words)

	The Royal Air Force operations in support of D-day
		Attached to the 2nd TAF were a number of Free French Squadrons, a list of which is available here, along with the recollections of an anonymous Free French pilot on D-Day minus one.
		RAF Bomber Command committed 82 squadrons consisting of 1,681 serviceable aircraft in support of the invasion.
		No 38 Group, Allied Expeditionary Air Force and No 46 Group, RAF Transport Command were vital parts of the initial assault on the Normandy beach-head.
	www.raf.mod.uk /dday/timeline_june5.html (1368 words)

	Canada at War - Page: WWII: The Battle of Britain
		Many Canadians served in the squadrons of Spitfires and Hurricanes which repulsed the Luftwaffe in the summer of 1940.
		No 242 (Canadian) Squadron RAF, which had been formed in 1939 from some of the many Canadians who flew directly with the Royal Air Force, was not reinforced with veterans from the French campaign and joined in the battle.
		On September 27, 303 Squadron RAF and 1 Squadron RCAF attacked the first wave of enemy bombers.
	wwii.ca /page48.html (719 words)

	RAF WWII
		Lost 27 April 1944 with No. 613 Squadron and is buried in the Ensched, Eastern Cemetery, Netherlands.
		F/O. Harry Wood Robson 39759 RAF Age 22 was the son of Robert Wood Robson and Isabella Ann Robson of Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire.
		The night previous to this, on the 5/6 January the Squadron lost three aircraft with the loss of 14 crew killed and 7 became POW from the three aircraft.
	members.iinet.net.au /~mpage/raf_wwii.html (2477 words)

	RAF Chedburgh World War 2
		The first operational squadron to be based at Chedburgh was 214 Squadron which moved to the station in October 1942 from RAF Stradishall where it converted from Wellingtons to Stirlings a few months earlier.
		218 Squadron moved in to the airfield during the first week of December 1944 as No. 31 Base became operational again, eventually building up to a strength of 30 aircraft.
		218 Squadron stayed until the end of the war being used in an increasing number of daylight raids, mostly to the Ruhr.
	www.worldwar2exraf.co.uk /RAF%20Stations/Chedburgh.htm (373 words)

	453rd Squadron RAAF
		The squadron had departed Australia without aircraft and arrived in Singapore, in two contingents, on 15 and 21 August 1941, where it was equipped with obsolete Brewster Buffalo fighters.
		Merged with the RAF’s 251 Squadron it continued to operate as the Japanese advanced relentlessly toward the island.
		It was planned that 453 Squadron would form part of a long-term Australian presence with the occupation forces, but a lack of volunteers for an extra year’s service made this impractical and 453 Squadron disbanded at Wunsdorf, Germany, on 21 January 1946.
	453raaf.turma.net /menu.shtml (587 words)

	Americans with No.218(B) Squadron [Archive] - The Aerodrome Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Most of the US assignments to RAF units were for the same "reason" - no US squadrons to place them in at the time, either due to lack of equipment or simply not enough pilot slots in front line squadrons to handle the number of men arriving in France.
		My arm is no better, but I'm getting the pain under control now so I'll be back at work in a day or so, and will be able to send off the details of all the 218 aircraft to you before the weekend.
		2) Some squadrons* were simply not too fastidious in handing in their documentation at the end of the war, the RAF didn't and doesn't seem to give a toss about history, the Air Historical Board didn't always file things properly, and with this sort of combination its inevitable that documents went missing.
	www.theaerodrome.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-584.html (3543 words)

	Ex-Air Gunners: Short Bursts
		This is no more than we should be doing and that the Canadians deserve for their sacrifice.
		Between myself and the RAF WOM A/G, we soon agreed that George was better on the radar and the turrets and the wireless was left to us.
		It was from a Norwegian Squadron and I later met with the Captain.
	www.airmuseum.ca /mag/0603.html (6250 words)

	SALTER, W/C George William (41315) - Distinguished Flying Cross - No
		This tour was brought to an end prematurely by the fact that he was severely injured in an enemy bombing raid on an airfield at which he was then serving.
		No citation other than "for gallantry and devotion to duty in the execution of air operations".
		I then approached the RAF and finally in October 1940 was accepted for pilot's training in the RAFVR.
	www.airforce.ca /canraf/CANRAF.S-Z.html (5565 words)

	P D Holder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		However, a month later No 108 Squadron was reformed at Upper Heyford and he was posted to it as one of its first officer.
		By 1940 he was the station Administration Officer at RAF Habbaniya at when the station was attacked and besieged by the Iraqi Army in 1941 he took command of the makeshift bomber squadron assembled from the stations training aircraft.
		A further spell in the Middle East began in 1950, when he was given command of RAF Shallufa in the south of the Canal Zone of Egypt and two years later she moved north to take command of RAF Kabrit.
	www.rafweb.org /Biographies/Holder.htm (960 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/RAF Marham
		RAF Marham is a Royal Air Force station near the village of Marham in Norfolk, England.
		The first squadron, No 38, arrived in May 1937 with Fairey Hendon bombers.
		The station is also one of the few large enough for the operation of the Boeing B-52 and a number of these aircraft visited on exercise in the 1970's and 1980's.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/RAF_Marham (465 words)

	HyperWar: Royal Air Force 1939–1945: Volume I: The Fight at Odds [Chapter XII]
		No large British ships were available to challenge the enemy in the Channel, but our submarine patrols off Brest were strengthened, and the light forces at Dover and in the Thames estuary were brought to a high degree of readiness.
		These were at first interpreted by No. 11 Group and Fighter Command as air/sea rescue operations; and it was not until 1020, when it became clear that the aircraft were flying in a particular orbit which moved up Channel at a speed of 20–25 knots, that two Spitfires were sent up from Hawkinge to investigate.
		No blame attached to the fighter squadrons that were late for rendezvous; and Lieutenant Commander Esmonde, for his part, was right to leave when only one escorting squadron had appeared.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/UN/UK/UK-RAF-I/UK-RAF-I-12.html (13877 words)

	B-24 Liberator at AllExperts
		Two RAF squadrons deployed to the Middle East in 1942 became the first to use the Liberator as a bomber.
		Liberator squadrons deployed to all theaters: Africa, Europe, the Atlantic, India and the Pacific.
		120 Squadron RAF of Coastal Command, with its handful of much patched and modified early model Liberators, supplied the only air cover for convoys in the Atlantic Gap, even while shipments of B-24s to strategic bombing squadrons doubled and redoubled.
	en.allexperts.com /e/b/b/b-24_liberator.htm (3416 words)

	No.7 Squadron, Indian Air Force "The Battleaxes"
		No losses occurred, but on 1 Dec 47, Fg Offr UA D'Cruz was shot down and taken prisoner when his Harvard was shot down by ground fire.
		The Squadron moved to Palam in Jan 49, where it was selected to be the first unit in the Indian Air Force to operate the De Havilland Vampire.
		The squadron was called upon to carry out its first offensive sorties on the morning of 6th Sept, when numerous sorties were flown against 'Targets of Opportunity' in support of the Indian army's offensive across the International border.
	www.bharat-rakshak.com /IAF/History/Sqn/007.html (4637 words)

	Useful Links - RAF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		RAF 550 squadron flew from North Killingholme Airbase, Lincolnshire, from late 1943 to October 1945.
		XXIV Squadron Association The Squadron Badge depicts a flcock with the Latin motto In Omnia Parati, which may be translated as "Ready for all Things" In March 1954, the Queen's standard was pres...
		R.A.F. The purpose of my website is to give an idea,in my own small way,of what 2 years as an RAF national serviceman was like(an impossible task!)....
	www.comradesandcolleagues.com /links/raf.html (1949 words)

	RAF Squadron Badges, Logos and Crests Gallery Index - Squadrons, Units and Stations - By Joe Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This is a gallery of Squadron, Station, Section and Unit badges available for personal use only, to anyone interested in RAF badges, logos and crests, they are not to be used for commercial gain, without permission.
		The RAF badges depicted were initally RAF Marham orientated, however due to popular request this section of the website has been drastically increased, howevever it is not a comprehensive RAF badge listing.
		If you have any RAF badges that would enhance the current selection please forward them to Joer Bridge, where they may be redrawn to the current standard, the larger the better, (jpeg files only please - no word documents) or via e-mail to : joe@joebridge.co.uk.
	www.joebridge.co.uk /gallery/rafbadges-index.htm (607 words)

	218 Squadron [Archive] - The Aerodrome Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It appears that 218 Sqdn has connection at all with the R.N.A.S. The last unit with any tie is 217 Squadron.
		I agree with their contention that 218 was not a naval squadron, but it was naval derived, in the ex naval numbering sequence, served near the coast, and let's face it, would have been a naval squadron if formed a month or so earlier.
		Since you have a 218 roster, it should be pretty quick to make a start compiling serial numbers of the DH-9's cataloged in the book.
	www.theaerodrome.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-1616.html (763 words)

	An Unknown Airman No More - part 1
		An RAF roundel is visible on the wreck.
		Almost two years and two months after the Cochranes' visit to Lemvig, the CWGC wrote to say that as a result of their investigations they were "now satisfied that the two graves in question in Lemvig cemetery, numbers 697 and 707, belonged to Sgt Alexander Wilson Cochrane and Sgt Stanley William Cowham, respectively".
		The RAF padre was The Reverend Gp Capt Gerald Moore, accompanied by two RAF escorts: he was assisted by Sognepraest E Bitsch; Cdr AC Gordon Lennox RN, (British Defence Attache), Wg Cdr RW King RAF (HQ BALTAP), the British Consul, the Danish Research Team and the Lord Mayor of Lemvig were among other distinguished guests.
	www.207squadron.rafinfo.org.uk /lemvig (3108 words)

	Silk and Barbed Wire
		Ron Daniel, pilot, 50 Squadron, flying a Halifax from RAF Station Gravely.
		Peter Stubbs, observer, 218 Squadron, flying a Fairey Battle from Auberive, France.
		Lloyd Trotter, pilot, 138 Squadron, flying a Halifax from RAF Station Tempsford.
	www.sagepages.com.au /silkandbarbedwire.html (759 words)

	RAF Squadron Codes - WWII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		During WWII, the RAF used three-letter codes to identify their aircraft from a distance.
		Two large letters were painted before the roundel, which signified the squadron to which the aircraft belonged, and another letter was painted after the roundel which indicated the individual aircraft.
		Aditionally, there was the individual serial number for each aircraft, which was painted in a much smaller size, usually somewhere at the rear of the aircraft, either under the tailplane or on the fin.
	www.btinternet.com /~lee_mail/rafcodes.html (206 words)

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