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Air Commodore Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman, a staff officer at No. 1 Group RAF, was the highest-ranking officer of RAF Bomber Command to be taken prisoner in World War II while flying operationally; he was flying as second pilot aboard an Avro Lancaster of No. 576 Squadron RAF on the night 6–7 May 1944.
On 24 August 1939, the British government gave orders for the armed forces partially to mobilise and on 2 September No. 1 Group RAF (Air Vice-Marshal Patrick Playfair) sent its ten Fairey Battle day-bomber squadrons to France according to plans made by the British and French earlier in the year.
On 26 August 1939 the squadron was mobilised for active service as part of RAF Fighter Command and the Squadron was transferred to RAF Digby. In 1940 Squadron Leader ”Johnnie” Hill took command whilst the squadron was at Lille, France. When the airfield was overrun Hill had taken 12 Hurricanes into the air.
Tan beret [6] - Special Air Service from 1942 till 1944; Black beret [7] - by armoured units, including the Royal Tank Corps from 1924; Service Dress [8] - the field uniform at the start of the war until replaced by battledress; Battledress ("Uniform No. 5") [9] [page needed] [10] 1937 pattern web equipment [11] [12]
After D-Day, the squadron remained with ADGB. With the commencement of the V-1 offensive on London, on 19 June 1944, No. 303 moved to RAF Westhampnett and then to RAF Merston. In June, F/S Chudek (nine kills) was shot down and killed. On 18 July, the unit went back to Westhampnett and received new Spitfire Mk IXs.
A 45 Squadron Beaufighter is loaded with rockets for use against communist forces during the Malayan Emergency, 1948–1949. From late 1944, RAF Beaufighter units were engaged in the Greek Civil War, finally withdrawing in 1946 From August 1948, Beaufighters were used during the Malayan Emergency, carrying out air strikes against communist forces.
During World War I, Frith artillery range was located on the site. [3] In 1938 the Air Ministry bought Harpur Hill Quarry from ICI.A totoal of 11 tunnels were built (concrete galleries covered by waste quarry stones) and dug into the hillside from 1938 to 1940 by McAlpine (at a cost of £6,500,000) to house munitions (ammunition and weapons) and ordnance (bombs and explosives) during World War II.
Still from camera gun footage taken from a Spitfire of No. 609 Squadron showing a Heinkel He 111 taking hits in the port engine on 25 September 1940. [7] Gun camera film showing tracer ammunition from a Spitfire of 609 Squadron, hitting a Heinkel He 111 [ 7 ]