| The following are the most notable campaigns, operations and actions. There will of course be many more that were not documented or well known or were covert operations that we cannot understandably publish. |
| April 1917. Battle of Arras March 1918. Ypres April 1918. Battle of Lys Jan 1919 to May 1919. Air Mail Delivery 5 September 1939. First RAF air attack on U-boat 3 May 1940. Hudson air combat v three Me109s. One Me109 destroyed and evaded other two despite severe damage to own aircraft May – June 1940. Dunkirk evacuation 3 July 1940. Hudson destroyed Me109 in air combat 28 August 1940. Hudson destroyed He115 floatplane 16 November 1940. Hudson destroyed Me110 in air combat Early 1941. Convoy patrols North Sea from RAF Bircham Newton June 1941. Anti-submarine patrols in Southwest approaches from RAF St Eval 4 July 1941. Attack and damage U-boat in Bay of Biscay June 1942. Battle of Atlantic from RAF Benbecula 25 June 1942. Thousand Bomber raid on Bremen. 27 October 1942. Attack and kill U-627 11 December 1942. Three U-boats attacked in single sortie 15 January 1943. Attack and kill U-337 9 February 1943. Attack and probable kill U-614 19 March 1943. Attack and kill U-384 25 March 1943. Attack and kill U-469 27 March 1943. Attack and kill U-169 24 April 1943. Attack and kill U-710 11 June 1943. Attack and kill U-417. Fortress FA704 damaged by return fire and ditched. Crew rescued by Catalina after three days in dinghy. 17June 1943. Attack and damage U-338 6 January 1944. Attack and damage U-270. Fortress FA705 shot down by return fire and crew lost. 13 March 1944. Attack U-575 and share kill with Wellington, Fortress, Canadian Frigate, two US Destroyers and three aircraft from USS Bogue June 1944. Operation Overlord. Start “Cork” patrols 10 June 1944. Attack U-821. Shared kill with two Mosquitoes of 248 Squadron February 1945. Operation Chilli – Low level patrols into Baltic August 1945 to April 1946. Trooping from India June 1948 to May 1949. Berlin Airlift July 1953. Royal Review of the Royal Air Force October 1956. Operation Challenger. Trooping to Malta and Cyprus June 1956 to September 1958. Operation Grapple – UK Hydrogen bomb tests at Christmas Island October 1962. Cuban missile crisis 1973. Operation Heliotrope (“Cod War”) April to June 1982. Operation Corporate (Falklands War) 6 July 1988. SAR operations for “Piper Alpha” disaster August 1990 to March 1991. Operation Granby / Operation Desert Storm (Gulf War 1) March 2003 to March 2005. Operation Telic (Gulf War 2) |
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