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Some squadrons and groups also used specific color bands on the wings or empennage of their aircraft; such colorings are not presented here. Notes: 381st BG: some squadrons were assigned more than one code; 482d BG: Pathfinder squadrons with variable use of codes; Some squadrons used colors rather than characters; these are listed below
Fleet Air Arm (FAA) Squadrons: No. 804 Squadron FAA: 5-Gloster Sea Gladiator/Grumman Martlet – No. 808 Squadron FAA: 5-Fairey Fulmar [6] – See also. Royal Air Force.
Pages in category "Aircraft squadrons of the Royal Air Force in World War II" The following 172 pages are in this category, out of 172 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Squadrons of the Royal Air Force & Commonwealth 1918–1988. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air Britain (Historians) Ltd., 1988. ISBN 0-85130-164-9. Jefford, C.G. RAF Squadrons, a Comprehensive record of the Movement and Equipment of all RAF Squadrons and their Antecedents since 1912. Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing, 1988 (second edition 2001).
The upper tips of the fins were painted different colors to identify its squadrons. The two air forces in Asia, the Tenth Air Force and Fourteenth Air Force , each had only a single bomb group. The Tenth's 7th Bombardment Group used a checkerboard pattern in either black-and-white or black-and-yellow on the rudder or part of the tail fin to ...
Squadrons of this type were formed in the late 1930s to provide scout floatplanes for the Navy's cruisers. This designation was discontinued upon the end of World War II. VD Photographic Squadron Photographic squadrons have probably undergone more re-designations than any other single type of squadron in the Navy.
This is a list of United States Air Force fighter squadrons. It covers units considered to be part of the Combat Air Force (CAF) such as fighter squadrons and serves as a break out of the comprehensive List of United States Air Force squadrons .
The squadron code is usually presented along with an individual letter or character to form a call sign for the particular aircraft. Location of the call sign combination has usually been on the rear fuselage next to the RAF roundel. In instances when an unusually large numbers of aircraft comprise the squadron, multiple squadron codes have ...