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No. 135 Expeditionary Air Wing

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batteries at Rheine-Hopsten to protect the approaches. As well as the anti-aircraft guns, several piston-engine fighter units based in the area were tasked to cover the jets as they landed. After seven Tempests were lost to flak at Hopsten in a week, the "Rat Scramble" was discontinued.
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night fighters). The aim was to attack jets on their landing approach, when they were at their most vulnerable, travelling slowly, with flaps down and incapable of rapid acceleration. The German response was the construction of a "flak lane" of over 150 emplacements of the
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Tempests on immediate alert took off when an Me 262 was reported airborne. They did not intercept the jet, but instead flew towards the Me 262 and
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by the time the Allied forces were reaching the German borders in 1945. Tempests scored several kills against the new German jets, including the
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For Exercise 'Griffin Strike 2016' in April 2016, No. 135 EAW became the combined French-British No. 135 Combined Expeditionary Air Wing.
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on 19 August and to France on 23 August 1944. The wing was part of No. 18 Fighter Sector of three wings with its headquarters in turn at
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Deployed to Mihail Kogalniceanu airbase near Constanta, Romania in April 2018 under Operation Biloxi with four Typhoon FGR4s of
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nearby. From September 1944 until May 1945, still with 84 Group, moving forward in North West Europe, it included
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Deployed to Ĺ iauliai, Lithuania from April to September 2020 for Operation Azotize with Typhoon FGR4 of
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Deployed to Ĺ iauliai, Lithuania from April to September 2019 for Operation Azotize with Typhoon FGR4 of
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After the war the wing also existed from 1 April 1953 to 1 January 1960 as a fighter wing based at
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For Exercise Agile Eagle the unit was trained at a specially designed at Leeming.
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on 1 May 1944 and was renamed to No. 135 (Fighter) Wing RAF on 12 May 1944.
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on 4 July 1944. The wing moved to Selsey on 6 August, before moving to
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in 2006, and has carried out several operational activities since:
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Royal Air Force flying training and support units since 1912
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The wing was formed at RAF Selsey on 12 May 1944 within
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The unit moved to 28: 1220:List of equipment of the RAF Regiment 329:before disbanding on 1 January 1960. 7: 1414: 1121:Princess Mary's RAF Nursing Service 885:Sturtivant, R.; Hamlin, J. (2007). 530:"Die Geschichte des Fliegerhorstes" 483:, Appendix VI: 'Allied Air Forces'. 1361:Combined Cadet Force (RAF section) 383:No. II (Army Cooperation) Squadron 25: 163:on 15 November 1943 and included 1672: 1498: 1487: 1474: 1460: 1413: 1277:Assistant Chief of the Air Staff 889:. 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Index

No. 135 Wing RAF
Royal Air Force
RAF Air Command
Fighter
Supermarine Spitfire
Hawker Tempest
Canadair Sabre
Hawker Hunter
Royal Air Force
RAF Leeming
RAF Hornchurch
No. 20 Wing RAF
No. 66 Squadron RAF
No. 129 Squadron RAF
No. 350 Squadron RAF
Supermarine Spitfires
RAF Matching Green
No. 23 Wing RAF
RAF Hornchurch
RAF Selsey
No. 19 Wing RAF
RAF Chailey
No. 18 Sector RAF
No. 84 Group RAF
222
349 (Belgian)
485 (NZ)
RAF Coolham
RAF Funtington
RAF Tangmere

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