Battle of Britain RAF squadrons

Battle of Britain RAF squadrons

Only men who flew operationally with a squadron of Fighter Command in the Battle of Britain are numbered among The Few and as such, awarded a Battle of Britain clasp to the 1939-45 Star.

The squadrons are as follows:
*No. 1 Squadron RAF - Hawker Hurricane
*No. 3 Squadron - Hurricane
*No. 17 Squadron - Hurricane
*No. 19 Squadron - Supermarine Spitfire
*No. 23 Squadron - Bristol Blenheim
*No. 25 Squadron - Blenheim and Bristol Beaufighter
*No. 29 Squadron - Blenheim
*No. 32 Squadron - Hurricane
*No. 41 Squadron - Spitfire
*No. 43 Squadron - Hurricane
*No. 46 Squadron - Hurricane
*No. 54 Squadron - Spitfire
*No. 56 Squadron - Hurricane
*No. 64 Squadron - Spitfire
*No. 65 Squadron - Spitfire
*No. 66 Squadron - Spitfire
*No. 72 Squadron - Spitfire
*No. 73 Squadron - Hurricane
*No. 74 Squadron - Spitfire
*No. 79 Squadron - Hurricane
*No. 85 Squadron - Hurricane
*No. 87 Squadron - Hurricane
*No. 92 Squadron - Spitfire
*No. 111 Squadron - Hurricane
*No. 141 Squadron - Boulton Paul Defiant
*No. 145 Squadron - Hurricane
*No. 151 Squadron - Hurricane and Defiant
*No. 152 Squadron - Spitfire
*No. 213 Squadron - Hurricane
*No. 219 Squadron
*No. 222 Squadron
*No. 229 Squadron
*No. 232 Squadron
*No. 234 Squadron
*No. 235 Squadron
*No. 236 Squadron
*No. 238 Squadron
*No. 242 Squadron
*No. 245 Squadron
*No. 247 Squadron - Gladiator
*No. 248 Squadron
*No. 249 Squadron - Hurricane
*No. 253 Squadron
*No. 257 Squadron
*No. 263 Squadron
*No. 264 Squadron
*No. 266 Squadron - Spitfire
*No. 302 Polish Fighter Squadron
*No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron
*No. 310 Czechoslovak Squadron - Hurricane
*No. 312 Czechoslovak Squadron - Hurricane
*No. 401 Squadron RCAF
*No. 501 Squadron
*No. 504 Squadron
*No 600 (City of London) Squadron
*No 601 (County of London) Squadron
*No 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron
*No 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron - Spitfire
*No 604 (County of Middlesex) Squadron
*No 605 (County of Warwick) Squadron
*No 607 (County of Durham) Squadron
*No 609 (West Riding) Squadron - Spitfire
*No 610 (County of Chester) Squadron - Spitfire
*No 611 (West Lancashire) Squadron
*No 615 (County of Surrey) Squadron
*No 616 (South Yorkshire) Squadron
*No. 804 Squadron
*No. 808 Squadron

ee also

*List of RAF stations
*List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons


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