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Tom Clark | Flying Officer Tom Clark Flying Officer Tom Clark volunteered to join the RAF in October 1941. On completion of training he spent 12 months flying with Dominion and trained pilots at No 15(P) AFU. At No 8 OTU Dyce he crewed with Fl/Lt (later Sqn Ldr) W R Assheton and was posted to 540 Sqn in May 1944. He completed 48 operations and ceased flying duties in September 1945. |
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Country : UK Founded : 19th October 1942 Fate : Disbanded 31st March 1956 Sine qua non - Indispensable | No.540 Sqn RAF formed on 19 October 1942 from 'H' and 'L' flights of No. 1 PRU at RAF Leuchars as a photoreconnaissance unit with the de Havilland Mosquito. It operated from Leuchars to carry out missions over Norway and Germany, while a detachment based at RAF Benson carried out similar missions over France and Italy. Another detachment, based at RAF Gibraltar covered the south of France and Algeria, but from 1944 on the unit was wholly based at RAF Benson, the range of the later Mosquito permitting missions deep in Austria or to the Canary Islands. In March 1945 the squadron went overseas, to France, coming back to the UK in November, again at RAF Benson where the unit was disbanded on 30 September 1946, when it was renumbered to 58 Squadron On 1 December 1947, No.540 Squadron reformed at Benson, and used its Mosquitoes for photographic reconnaissance and survey duties,In March 1953 the squadron moved to Wyton, where it was disbanded on 31 March 1956. | |
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