240. peruť RAF

No. 240 Squadron RAF - přehledové téma
[b:him]Well. 240 Squadron RAF
240. squadron RAF

motto
Sjo-Vordur Lopt-Vordur (island. - Guardian of the sea guardian of the sky)

code character
SH (04.1939-09.1939)
BN (09.1939-06.1942)
L (05.1952-xx.1956)
240 (xx.1956-11.1958)

history
20.08.1918 - arises at the base of Calshot by the merger of several separate squadrons (no. 345, 346, 410 and 411) of the coastal air force and until the end of the war, carried out anti-submarine patrols over the channel La Manche
15.05.1919 - dissolved
30.03.1937 - restored at the base of Calshot as a training unit of the coastal air force for the crews of the seaplanes
xx.07.1939 - declared political prisoners, and the following month begins with patrolling over the North sea, after the outbreak of the 2. world war gradually used over the east and the north Atlantic and the North sea
29.03.1942 - starting with moving to India, from where it patrols over the bay of Bengal, the Indian ocean and supplies a resistance movement in the Dutch east Indies (today Indonesia)
01.07.1945 - disbanded, but the same day restored by renumbering the 212. squadron, continues in specific tasks over the Dutch east India and carried out meteoprůzkumné years ago
10.01.1946 - transferred to Ceylon (today Sri Lanka)
31.03.1946 - dissolved
01.05.1952 - restored at the base of the St. Eval as part of the coastal air force and on the machines Shackleton provides marine survey
01.11.1958 - expires přeznačením to 203. squadron
01.08.1959 - restored at the base of Breighton as a unit armed with tactical missiles Thor
08.01.1963 - dissolved

resources
Halley, James J.: The Squadrons of the Royal Air Force & Commonwealth 1918-1988, Air Britain Ltd., 1988, ISBN 0 85130 164 9
http://www.rafweb.org/Sqn236-240.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._240_Squadron_RAF
http://www.raf.mod.uk/history_old/h240.html
www.historyofwar.org
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