No. 232 Group RAF
{{Short description|Former Royal Air Force operations group}}
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|dates = 24 February 1945 - 15 August 1946
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No. 232 (Transport) Group RAF (232 Gp) was a group of the Royal Air Force, active between 1945 and 1946.
History
No. 232 Group was formed 24 February 1945, in Comilla, from the RAF element of the Combat Cargo Task Force, and appears to have included No. 436 Squadron RCAF.{{Cite web | url=https://www.rcafassociation.ca/heritage/history/rcaf-and-the-crucible-of-war/436-squadron/ | title=436 Squadron }} Leaving a detachment at Comilla the group headquarters relocated to Rangoon during October. In March 1946 it moved to Singapore, where it disbanded on 15 August 1946. It was officially a Transport Command Group, operating under control of HQ Air Command South-East Asia.{{cite web |url= http://www.rafweb.org/Organsation/Grp07.htm |title=Groups 200–333 |first=M. B. |last=Barrass |work=Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation |year=2015 |accessdate=30 April 2015}} Air Commodore Alfred Earle was Air Officer Commanding, having arrived from command of No. 300 Group RAF in Australia.[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/EARLE.shtml Sir Alfred Earle] Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
It had a communication squadron, No. 232 Group Communication Squadron.{{sfn|Lake|1999}}
See also
References
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- {{cite book |last1=Lake |first1=A |title= Flying units of the RAF |year=1999 |publisher= Airlife |location= Shrewsbury |isbn= 1-84037-086-6 }}
- http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C30623 - records at National Archives, Kew
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Category:Military units and formations established in 1945
Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1946