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LXX Squadron is based at RAF Brize Norton, home of the RAF's transport and air-to-air refueling capability. The Squadron had the first British fighter equipped with a machine gun synchronised to fire through the propeller. Aircraft flown have included the Camel, Liberator VI, Dakota and the Hercules. Provided vital support to the UK relief effort in the Caribbean after hurricane Irma.
1916 Formed at Farnborough.
1928 Took part in the world's first large-scale airborne evacuation from Kabul.
1956 Dropped parachute troops in to Port Said during the Suez Crisis.
2010 The Hercules squadron disbanded while awaiting for Atlas (A400M).
1916-1918* Western Front
1916* Somme
1917 Arras, Ypres
1918 Somme
1922-1924 Kurdistan
1918-1929 Iraq
1930-1931 Kurdistan
1932 Northern Kurdistan
1937 North West Frontier
1940-1943 Mediterranean
1940-1943* Egypt and Libya
1940-1941 Greece
1941 Syria
1941* Iraq
1942-1943* El Alamein, North Africa
1943 El Hamma, Sicily
1943-1945* Italy
Salerno
Anzio and Nettuno
Gustav Line
Gothic Line
1944-1945* South East Europe
1982 South Atlantic
1991 Gulf
2003-2011 Iraq
Honours marked with an asterisk, may be emblazoned on the Squadron Standard.
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