RAF Coastal Command order of battle during World War II
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This article lists the order of battle of RAF Coastal Command throughout the Second World War in the European Theatre of World War II.
3 September 1939
;No. 15 Group RAF (GR), under command of Air Commodore R.G. Parry, DSOAshworth 1992, Appendix II
;No. 16 Group RAF (GR), under command of Air Commodore R.L.G. Marix, DSO
;No. 17 Group RAF (T), under command of Air Commodore T.E.B. Howe, CBE, AFCDelve 1994, p. 51.
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!Squadron !! Type of aircraft !! Station | ||
Torpedo Training Unit RAFLake 1999, p. 282. | various | RAF Gosport |
No. 2 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit RAFLake 1999, pp. 29-30. | various | RAF Gosport |
School of General Reconnaissance RAFLake 1999, p. 182. | Avro Anson | RAF Thorney Island |
Seaplane Training Squadron RAFLake 1999, p. 183. | various | RAF Calshot |
;No. 18 Group RAF (GR), under command of Air Vice Marshal C.D. Breese, CB, AFC
1 November 1940
;No. 15 Group RAF (GR), under command of Air Commodore R.G. Parry, DSOAshworth 1992, Appendix III
;No. 16 Group RAF (GR), under command of Air Vice Marshal J.H.S. Tyssen, CB, DSO
;No. 17 Group RAF (T), under command of Air Commodore T.E.B. Howe, CBE, AFC
;No. 18 Group RAF (GR), under command of Air Vice Marshal C.D. Breese, CB, AFC
;No. 200 Group RAF (Coastal), under command of Group Captain A.D. Rogers, CBE, AFC
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! Squadron !! Type of Aircraft !! Station | ||
No. 202 Squadron RAF | Saro London/Fairey Swordfish | RAF Gibraltar |
12 February 1942
;No. 15 Group RAF (GR), under command of Air Vice Marshal J.M. Robb, CB, DSO, DFC, AFCAshworth 1992, Appendix IV
;No. 16 Group RAF (GR), under command of Air Commodore I.T. Lloyd, CBE
;No. 17 Group RAF (T), under command of Air Commodore H.G. Smart, CBE, DFC, AFC
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! Squadron !! Type of Aircraft !! Station | ||
Numerous Training Units | N/A |
;No. 18 Group RAF (GR), under command of Air Vice Marshal A. Durston, CB, AFC
;No. 19 Group RAF (GR), under command of Air Commodore G.R. Bromet, CBE, DSO
;AHQ Gibraltar, under command of Air Commodore S.P. Simpson, CBE, MC
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! Squadron !! Aircraft !! Station | ||
No. 202 Squadron RAF | Short Sunderland/Consolidated Catalina | RAF Gibraltar |
;AHQ Iceland, under command of Air Commodore W.H. Primrose, CBE, DFC
15 February 1943
;No. 15 Group RAF under command of Air Vice Marshal T.A. Langford-Sainsbury, OBE, DFC, AFCAshworth 1992, Appendix V
;No. 16 Group RAF, under command of Air Vice Marshal B.E. Baker, CB, DSO, MC, AFC
;No. 17 Group RAF, under command of Air Commodore H.G. Smart, CBE, DFC, AFC
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! Squadron !! Type of Aircraft !! Station | ||
Numerous Training Units | N/A |
;No. 18 Group RAF, under command of Air Vice Marshal A.B. Ellwood, CB, DSC
;No. 19 Group RAF, under command of Air Vice Marshal G.R. Bromet, CB, CBE, DSO
;AHQ Gibraltar, under command of Air Commodore S.P. Simpson, CBE, MC
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!Squadron !! Type of aircraft !! Station | ||
No. 48 Squadron RAF | Lockheed Hudson | RAF Gibraltar (North Front) |
No. 179 Squadron RAF | Vickers Wellington | RAF Gibraltar (North Front) |
No. 202 Squadron RAF | Consolidated Catalina | RAF Gibraltar (Harbour) |
No. 210 Squadron RAF | Consolidated Catalina | RAF Gibraltar (Harbour) |
No. 233 Squadron RAF | Lockheed Hudson | RAF Gibraltar (North Front) |
No. 544 Squadron RAF | Supermarine Spitfire | RAF Gibraltar (North Front) |
;AHQ Iceland, under command of Air Commodore K.B. Lloyd, AFC
6 June 1944
;No. 15 Group RAF under command of Air Vice Marshal Sir Leonard Slatter, KBE, CB, DSC, DFC
;No. 16 Group RAF, under command of Air Vice Marshal F.L. Hopps, CB, CBE, AFC
;No. 17 Group RAF, under command of Air Commodore H.G. Smart, CBE, DFC, AFCSee also Order of battle 6 June 1944, including Nos 4,5,6,7,9, 131, 132 OTUs and . [http://niehorster.org/017_britain/44-06-06_Neptune/Air/z-air_Group-017.htm].
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! Squadron !! Type of Aircraft !! Station | ||
No. 1674 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF | ||
Numerous Training Units | N/A |
;No. 18 Group RAF, under command of Air Vice Marshal S.P. Simpson, CB, CBE, MC
;No. 19 Group RAF, under command of Air Vice Marshal B.E. Baker, CB, DSO, MC, AFC
;No. 106 Group RAF, under command of Air Commodore J.N. Boothman, CB, DFC, AFC
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! Squadron !! Type of aircraft !! Station | ||
No. 540 Squadron RAF | de Havilland Mosquito | RAF Benson |
No. 541 Squadron RAF | Supermarine Spitfire | RAF Benson (Det. at RAF St Eval) |
No. 542 Squadron RAF | Supermarine Spitfire | RAF Benson |
No. 544 Squadron RAF | de Havilland Mosquito | RAF Benson |
;No. 247 Group RAF, under command of Air Vice Marshal G R Bromet {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KBE|CB|DSO|DL}}
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! Squadron !! Type of aircraft !! Station | ||
No. 220 Squadron RAF | Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress | RAF Lagens, Azores |
No. 269 Squadron RAF | Lockheed Hudson/Supermarine Walrus/Supermarine Spitfire | RAF Lagens, Azores |
;AHQ Gibraltar, under command of Air Vice Marshal W. Elliott, CB, CBE, DFC
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!Squadron !! Type of aircraft !! Station | ||
No. 202 Squadron RAF | Consolidated Catalina | RAF Gibraltar (New Camp) |
No. 520 Squadron RAF | Handley Page Halifax/Gloster Gladiator (Met) | RAF Gibraltar (North Front) |
;AHQ Iceland, under command of Air Commodore C.G. Wigglesworth, AFC
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!Squadron !! Type of Aircraft !! Station | ||
No. 162 Squadron RCAF | Consolidated Canso | Skerja Fjord, Reykjavík |
No. 1407 (Meteorological) Flight RAF | Lockheed Hudson | RAF Reykjavik |
References
;Footnotes
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;Citations
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;Bibliography
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- Blumenson, Martin & Greenfield, Ken. Command Decisions. United States Government Printing. 1984. {{ISBN|978-0-16-001912-8}}
- Buckley, John. The RAF and Trade Defence, 1919–1945: Constant Endeavour. Ryburn Publishing. 1995. {{ISBN|1-85331-069-7}}
- Buckley, John. Air Power in the Age of Total War. UCL Press. 1998. {{ISBN|1-85728-589-1}}.
- Blair, Clay. Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters 1939–1942 Cassel & Co. 1996. {{ISBN|0-304-35260-8}}
- Blair, Clay. Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted 1942–1945. Cassel & Co. 1996. {{ISBN|0-304-35261-6}}
- Bowyer, Chaz. Coastal Command at War. Shepperton, Surrey, UK: Ian Allan Ltd., 1979. {{ISBN|0-7110-0980-5}}.
- Corum, James. The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918–1940. Kansas University Press. 1997. {{ISBN|978-0-7006-0836-2}}
- de la Ferté, Philiip Joubert. The Birds and the Fishes: The Story of Coastal Command. Hutchinson. 1960. (No ISBN)
- Delve, Ken. The Source Book of the RAF. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing Ltd., 1994. {{ISBN|1-85310-451-5}}.
- Forczyk, Robert. Fw 200 Condor Vs Atlantic Convoys, 1941–1943. Osprey Publications. 2010. {{ISBN|978-1-84603-917-1}}
- Goulter, Christina. A Forgotten Offensive: Royal Air Force Coastal Command's Anti-Shipping Campaign, 1940–1945. Frank & Cass. London. 2005. {{ISBN|0-7146-4147-2}}.
- Hendrie, Andrew. The Cinderella Service: RAF Coastal Command 1939–1945. Pen & Sword Aviation. 2006. {{ISBN|978-1-84415-346-6}}.
- Hyde, H. Montgomery. British Air Policy Between the Wars, 1918–1939. Heineman 1977. {{ISBN|0-434-47983-7}}.
- Kostenuk S. Griffin J. RCAF Squadron Histories and Aircraft, Samuel Stevens Hakkert & Company, 1977. {{ISBN|0-88866-577-6}}
- Lake, Alan. Flying Units of the RAF: The ancestry, formation and disbandment of all flying units from 1912. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing, 1999. {{ISBN|1-84037-086-6}}.
- March, Daniel J. British Warplanes of World War II. Rochester, Kent, UK: Grange Books, 1998. {{ISBN|1-84013-391-0}}.
- Matusiak, Wojtek. Merlin PR Spitfires (Classic Warbirds No. 10). Wellington, New Zealand: Ventura Publications, 2007. {{ISBN|0-9582296-2-7}}.
- Nesbit, Roy Conyers. Coastal Command in Action, 1939–1945. Budding Books. 2000 (2nd Edition). {{ISBN|1-84015-112-9}}
- Rawlings, John D.R. Coastal, Support and Special Squadrons of the RAF and their Aircraft. London, Jane's Publishing Company Ltd., 1982. {{ISBN|0-7106-0187-5}}.
- Saunders, Hilary Aidan St. George and Denis Richards. Royal Air Force, 1939–1945. Volume III: The Fight is Won. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1975. {{ISBN|0-11-771594-8}}.
- Terraine, John. Business in Great Waters: The U-Boat Wars, 1916–1945. Leo Cooper. London. 1989. {{ISBN|0-85052-760-0}}
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External links
- http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_PBY_catalina_US_service.html
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