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On This Day, 1999: On 5 June 1999 RAF Tornados flew their first combat missions from Solenzara in Corsica during Operation Allied…
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Squadron profiles from the modern raf era of the Royal Air Force.
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617 Squadron
“21 March 1943”
RAF Marham, Norfolk — <a href="https://theroyalairforcechronicle.co.uk/aircraft/f-35b-lightning-ii/">F-35B Lightning II</a>
How 617 Squadron evolved from the Dams Raid and Tallboy operations to Tornado strike and today’s F-35B Lightning role.
Specialist precision strike squadron with a heritage stretching from Operation Chastise to carrier-capable fifth-generation combat operations. VC Awarded
View squadron → Formed Ruhr 1943 Dams Raid 1943 France and Germany 1944–1945 Biscay Ports 1943–1944 Tirpitz 1944 Baltic 1944–1945 Channel and North Sea 1944–1945 Gulf 1991 Iraq 2003 Afghanistan 2009–2014
Final base 1
Final aircraft <a href="https://theroyalairforcechronicle.co.uk/people/george-holden/">George Walton Holden</a>
Era Second World War · Cold War · Modern RAF
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29 Squadron Captain <a href="https://theroyalairforcechronicle.co.uk/people/james-mccudden/">James McCudden</a> VC served with 29 Squadron in the First World War and was awarded the Victoria Cross for repeated conspicuous bravery and combat success, gazetted in April 1918.
74 Squadron Single-seat fighter squadron later employed in air defence, fighter-bomber operations and, in its final incarnation, reserve fast-jet training.–1918 “1 July 1917”
617 Squadron Ruhr 1943 Dams Raid 1943 France and Germany 1944–1945 Biscay Ports 1943–1944 Tirpitz 1944 Baltic 1944–1945 Channel and North Sea 1944–1945 Gulf 1991 Iraq 2003 Afghanistan 2009–2014 “21 March 1943”
11 Squadron <a href="https://theroyalairforcechronicle.co.uk/aircraft/eurofighter-typhoon/">Eurofighter Typhoon</a> FGR4
19 Squadron Western Front, 1916–1918 Somme, 1916 Arras Ypres, 1917 Somme, 1918 Amiens Hindenburg Line Dunkirk Home Defence, 1940–1942 Battle of Britain, 1940 Channel & North Sea, 1941–1942 Fortress Europe, 1942–1944 Dieppe Normandy, 1944 Arnhem France & Germany, 1944–1945 “1 September 1915”