Providing rapid air mobility worldwide in support of the RAF on operations.
With courage and faith
18 Squadron is based at RAF Odiham, home of the UK Chinook Force. They have claimed 200 air-to-air victories by the end of WWI. Former aircraft flown have included the Blenheim I and IV, Valiant and the Wessex. 18 Squadron provided tactical air transport to front-line troops in Iraq (Operation TELIC) and Afghanistan (Operation HERRICK).
1915 Formed at RAF Northolt.
1941 Dropped a replacement artificial leg to the captured Douglas Bader during a bombing mission.
1955 Took part in the Suez crisis.
1982 Provided the sole Chinook in the Falklands campaign.
2017 Supported the UK relief effort in the Caribbean after hurricane Irma.
1915-1918* Western Front
1916* Somme
1918* Somme
Hindenburg Line*
Lys
France and Low Countries
1940* Invasion Ports
1940-1942 Fortress Europe
1940-1941* Channel and North Sea
1942 Egypt and Libya
1942-1943* North Africa
1943 Mediterranean
1943 Sicily
Salerno
1943-1944 South East Europe
1943-1945* Italy
Gothic Line
1982* South Atlantic
1991 Gulf
2003-2011 Iraq
Honours marked with an asterisk, are emblazoned on the Squadron Standard.
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