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Mike Randles | Flight Lieutenant Mike Randles Flight Lieutenant Mike Randles volunteered as a Wireless Operator in 1941, but on call-up, immediately remustered for aircrew. His lengthy training as a navigator/wireless-op/ photographer culminated in joining 540 Squadron at RAF Benson. With his pilot, Flight Lieutenant Guy Trevor, who sadly lost his life in a flying accident shortly after the end of the war, he completed 35 PR operations from Benson, Dyce (Aberdeen) from which they concentrated on Norwegian targets, and Coulommiers in France. Their longest operation of over 1500 miles took over six hours to photograph 18 targets in Norway in November 1944. Mike claims he was a lucky one, having been shot at only twice and escaping interception by German jets over Prague, Arnhem and Osnabruck. |
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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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