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'No. 652 Squadron RAF' was a unit of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and afterwards in Germany.

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History

See also

Notable people

References

History

Numbers 651 to 666 Squadrons of the RAF were Air Observation Post units working closely with Army units in artillery spotting and liaison.
No 652 Squadron was formed at Old Sarum, Wiltshire, on 1 May 1942 and went into action in Normandy on 7 June 1944 in support of the British Second Army and the Operation Overlord landings. Most of its pilots and observers came from the British Army, while maintenance was carried out by RAF personnel. The squadron moved with the Second Army through France and the Netherlands into Germany, and after the German surrender it remained as part of the British Air Forces of Occupation, later of the 2nd Tactical Air Force, until September 1957, when it was merged into the Army Air Corps. It is represented today by '652 Squadron' of '1 Regiment, Army Air Corps'

See also

★ List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons

Notable people

★ Peter W. Wilkinson

References

★ G G Jefford, ''RAF Squadrons'', second edition 2001, Airlife Publishing, UK, ISBN 1-84037-141-2.