Formed:
30 Jun 1941, RAF Digby
Disbanded:
??
Squadron was
based at:
RAF Digby :: 30 Jun
1941 - 20 Oct 1941
RAF
Wellingore :: 20 Oct 1941 - 1 May 1942
Squadron
code: VZ
Aircraft
operated:
Spitfire MkIIa
:: Jul 1941 - Oct 1941
Spitfire MkVb :: Oct 1941 - Nov 1943
Spitfire MkIXc :: Nov 1943 - Sep
1944
Spitfire MkIXe :: Sep 1944 - May 1945
Spitfire MkXVI :: May 1945 - Jun
1945
Spitfire MkXIVe :: Jun 1945 - May 1946
412 Sqn RCAF was activated at RAF Digby on 30 Jun 1941, moving on and
ending up in France on 19 Jun 1944. It was disbanded on 21 Mar 1946 at
Utersen, Germany. It was reactivated in the post-war RCAF as 412 Transport
Sqn. See the Canadian Air Force history for more :: click here
19 year old American John Magee, killed on 11 Dec 1941
in a Spitfire was on 412 Sqn RCAF. He wrote
the famous poem High Flight:
"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced
the
skies on
laughter-silvered
wings" ...
Battle Honours
Defence of Britain 1941 - 44
Fortress Europe 1941 - 44,
Dieppe English
Channel and North Sea 1942 - 43,
Arnheim Normandy 1944
Rhine
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