238. peruť RAF

No. 238 Squadron RAF - přehledové téma
238th RAF Squadron
No. 238 Squadron RAF


period of existence / Active
238 Squadron RAF [1918-1922]
238th RAF Squadron [1940-1944]
238th RAF Squadron [1944-1945]
238th RAF Squadron [1946-1948]

motto
Ad Finem (Lat. - To the end)

history
20.08.1918 - Formed at Cattewater by merging several separate squadrons (Nos. 347, 348 and 349) of the Coastal Air Force and patrolling the English Channel until the end of the war
15.05.1919 - framed
20.03.1922 - disbanded
16.05.1940 - reconstituted at Tangmere as a fighter, participating in the Battle of Britain and then taking part in offensive sorties over the continent
May 20, 1941 - begins movement to North Africa, flying personnel on aircraft carrier Victorious, ground personnel by ship via South Africa
14.06.1941 - accompanies bombers and undertakes offensive operations on the North African front until late 1942, then withdrawn to Egypt as part of air defence and rearmed with Spitfire fighters
30.03.1944 - transferred to Corsica, from where it mainly attacks ground targets in southern France and northern Italy and participates in the landings in southern France (Operation Dragoon)
08.10.1944 - withdrawn to Italy
31.10.1944 - disbanded
01.12.1944 - reconstituted at Merryfield as a transport unit
14.02.1945 - transferred to India
02.07.1945 - transferred to Australia
27.12.1945 - disbanded
01.12.1946 - reconstituted at Abingdon base again as transport by renumbering 525 Squadron, participating in the "air bridge" to besieged Berlin (1948-1949)
04.10.1948 - in the course of this operation it disappears by renaming to 10th Squadron (according to some sources as late as 5 November 1948)


Battle Honours
Battle of Britain


sources
Halley, James J. The Squadrons of the Royal Air Force & Commonwealth 1918-1988. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air Britain (Historians) Ltd, 1988. ISBN 0-85130-164-9.
Jefford, Wing Commander C.G., MBE, BA, RAF(Retd.). RAF Squadrons, a Comprehensive record of the Movement and Equipment of all RAF Squadrons and their Antecedents since 1912. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing, 1988 (second edition 2001). ISBN 1-85310-053-6.
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.
http://www.rafweb.org/Squadrons/Sqn236-240.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._238_Squadron_RAF
http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/238squadron.cfm
www.historyofwar.org
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Znak jednotky byl oficiálně autorizován králem Jiřím VI. v červnu 1941.
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