LXX Squadron

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About

Based at RAF Brize Norton, home of the RAF's transport and air-to-air refueling capability
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).

Western Front 1916-1918*

Somme 1916*

Arras, Ypres 1917

Somme 1918

Kurdistan 1922-1924

Iraq 1918-1929

Kurdistan 1930-1931

Northern Kurdistan 1932

North West Frontier 1937

Mediterranean 1940-1943

Egypt and Libya 1940-1943*

Greece 1940-1941

Syria 1941

Iraq 1941*

El Alamein, North Africa 1942-1943*

El Hamma, Sicily 1943

Italy 1943-1945*

Salerno

Anzio and Nettuno

Gustav Line

Gothic Line

South East Europe 1944-1945*

South Atlantic 1982,

Gulf 1991

Iraq 2003-2011

(Honours marked with an asterisk, may be emblazoned on the Squadron Standard)

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