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No. 107 Squadron RAF

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was shot down. He had taken over the squadron shortly after the disastrous first war mission in September 1939 and had taught the squadron the need for a tight formation for mutual defence which served the squadron time and again. The adventurous story of his escape from captivity eventually reached
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on 12 January 1942. Losses among the squadron had been so heavy – 90% of all original and replacement crews were killed in action during the Malta operations – that at one time the squadron was commanded by a sergeant, I. G. Broom. It was not the last time this man was in command of a RAF unit, he
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The double-headed eagle is one of the supporters from the armorial bearings of Salisbury, in which district the squadron was formed. The collar of fleur-de-lys was introduced in reference to service in France in the First World War during a period when the unit was attached to the French Army. The
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in World War II was Sergeant George Booth, a navigator with 107 Squadron. He was captured when his Bristol Blenheim was shot down over the German coast on that 4 September 1939. In April 1940 the squadron carried out attacks on German forces engaged in the
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missiles soon made the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile obsolete, and in 1962 the Minister of Defence announced the phase-out of the Thor missiles. The squadron therefore disbanded once again, at Tuddenham on 10 July 1963.
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on 3 June of that year. The squadron became at first part of the 13th wing of the 3rd brigade, working up to operational status. Thereafter it was transferred to the 51st wing of the 9th brigade and it began operations from
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from August 1938 which gave way in their turn to Blenheim Mk.IVs in May 1939. It was with five of this aircraft that No. 107 took part in the RAF's first bombing raid of the war against enemy ships in the German port of
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were employed in the UK each operating missile squadron was originally meant to control three sites. 107 Squadron so started out in September 1958 by being the 'C' flight of the first RAF Thor missile unit,
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bombers and new aircrews, and began converting them onto this aircraft. The squadron began flying daylight operations again in March 1942. The most famous operation the squadron flew using the Boston was
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the squadron took up its low-level daylight raids again until August of that year, when the aircraft of the unit and their pilots -the air detachment of the squadron- were sent to
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the squadron became engaged with attacking invasion barges and shipping concentrations in the Channel ports. In one of these attacks the new Commanding Officer,
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Borisenko, Igor (October 2012). "Kryeser «Emden». Pyervaya zhertva Korolevskih VVS" [Cruiser Emden. First vistim of the RAF].
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as a day bomber unit on 8 October 1917, No. 107 Squadron was not equipped with aircraft until 15 May 1918 at RFC Lake Down, north of
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RAF Squadrons, a Comprehensive record of the Movement and Equipment of all RAF Squadrons and their Antecedents since 1912
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Combat Codes: A Full Explanation and Listing of British, Commonwealth and Allied Air Force Unit Codes since 1938
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motto is said to have been derived from the squadron magazine produced in the First World War and entitled
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and switched to night intruder operations. In November the squadron moved onto the continent, flying from
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on 21 July 1918, where a large ammunition dump was hit. From the squadron's airfield, 20 miles away at
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Wingless Victory: The Story of Sir Basil Embry's Escape from Occupied France in the Summer of 1940
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In the meantime the rest of the squadron, forming the ground echelon, had remained at
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in May 1940 began attacking enemy columns and communications. Following the
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on 4 September 1939, the day after war was declared on Germany, along with
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Military units and formations of the Royal Air Force in World War I
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The Squadrons of the Royal Air Force & Commonwealth 1918–1988
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in March 1919, it disbanded there on 30 June of that same year.
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Official history of No. 107 Squadron at Royal Air Force website
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Between 3 March 1941 and May 1941, the squadron was on loan to
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railway station and junction on 1 October 1918. Returning to
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on 10 August 1936 as a light bomber squadron, equipped with
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Aircraft squadrons of the Royal Air Force in World War II
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A double-headed eagle displayed gorged with a collar of
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Bowyer, Michael J. F.; Rawlings, John D. R. (1979).
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United Kingdom

Royal Air Force
French
Basil Embry
Ivor Broom
Fleur de Lys
Royal Flying Corps
First World War
Royal Air Force
Second World War
Cold War
Thor Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles

Catterick
Salisbury
Airco DH.9s
Western Front
Drionville
Saponay
Chailly
Aulnoye
Hounslow Heath Aerodrome

RAF Andover
Hawker Hinds
Blenheim Mk.Is
Wilhelmshaven
No. 110 Squadron

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