| 词条 | No. 106 Squadron RAF | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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|unit_name= No. 106 Squadron RAF |image= Ouzouer-le-Doyen-FR-41-monument aux aviateurs de la RAF-2.jpg |caption= No. 106 Squadron badge |dates= 30 September 1917 – 8 February 1919 1 June 1928 – 18 February 1946 22 July 1959 – 24 May 1963 |country= {{flagicon|UK}} United Kingdom |allegiance= |branch= Royal Air Force |type= |role= |size= |equipment= |command_structure= |garrison= |nickname= |patron= |motto= {{lang-la|Pro Libertate}} ("For Freedom")[1] |colors= |march= |mascot= |battles= |anniversaries= |decorations= |battle_honours= |commander1= |commander1_label= |commander2= |commander2_label= |commander3= |commander3_label= |notable_commanders=Guy Gibson |identification_symbol= A lion sejant, rampant, holding a banner charged with an astral crown. Based on the crest of the County Borough of Doncaster, the squadron being stationed near there at the time of adopting the badge.[2] |identification_symbol_label= Squadron Badge |identification_symbol_2= XS (May 1939 – September 1939) ZN (Sep 1939 – February 1946) |identification_symbol_2_label= Squadron Codes }} No. 106 Squadron RAF was a Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force squadron active from 1917 until 1919. It was also operative during World War II and in the post war period until 1963. HistoryEstablishment and early serviceFormed as No 106 Squadron, RFC, at Andover, Hampshire, on 30 September 1917. It was initially intended to be a corps reconnaissance squadron but after training in May 1918 it was not sent to the Western Front but to Ireland to help with the developing troubles there. It served in Army co-operation and policing roles for 18 months before being disbanded at Fermoy, on 8 October 1919. The squadron next appeared in June 1938, when it was re-formed as No 106 (Bomber) Squadron.[3] Reformation and World War IIThe squadron reformed on 1 June 1938 at RAF Abingdon [4] from a nucleus provided by a flight from No. 15 Squadron. Initially equipped with Hinds, it began to receive Battles on 8 July before moving to No.5 Bomber Group at RAF Thornaby on 1 September [5] and, temporarily, moving to RAF Grantham on 26 September before returning to Thornaby on 14 October 1938 [6] . From May 1939 the squadron began re-equipping with Hampdens together with Ansons to assist in the conversion process.[3] The squadron left RAF Thornaby on 19 August 1939 for armament training at RAF Evanton and, on 1 September, moved to RAF Cottesmore.[7] At the outbreak of the Second World War the squadron was flying Hampdens with No. 5 Group in a training role which continued up until 1 March 1941 when it reverted to front-line status and began regular night bombing operations against Fortress Europe, flying its first bombing raid on Cologne, although it had taken part in some mine laying prior to that.[3] After a short spell in early 1942 with Manchesters, from May 1942 No 106 started replacing them with Lancasters [3] (but it did not become converted completely to Lancasters before some of the squadron's Manchesters had participated in the 1,000-bomber raids on Cologne, Essen and Bremen). In October it contributed 10 Lancasters to No. 5 Group's low-level epic dusk raid ("Operation Robinson") on Le Creusot and two more (one of them piloted by Wing Commander Guy Gibson who was then No 106's CO) to the subsidiary raid on Montchanin. In 1943 it took part in the first "shuttle-bombing" raids (when the targets were Friedrichshafen and Spezia) and the famous attack on Peenemünde. Among the targets attacked in 1944 were a coastal gun battery at St. Pierre du Mont and the V1 storage sites in the caves at St. Leu d'Esserent. In December 1944, it made a 1,900-mile round trip to bomb the German Baltic Fleet at Gdynia, while in March 1945, it was represented in the bomber force that so pulverised the defences of Wesel just before the Rhine crossing that Commandos were able to seize the town with only 36 casualties. In April 1945, came the last of the squadron's operations against the enemy – a bombing attack on an oil refinery at Vallo (Tonsberg) in Norway, and a simultaneous minelaying expedition to the Oslo fjord.[3] During the Second World War, No 106 Squadron operated on 496 nights and 46 days, flying 5,834 operational sorties. In so doing it lost 187 aircraft – a percentage loss on sorties flown of 3.21 – but on the credit side its gunners claimed 20 enemy aircraft destroyed, 3 probably destroyed and 29 damaged. A total of 267 decorations were won by the squadron, including a Victoria Cross awarded to Sergeant NC Jackson for conspicuous bravery during an attack on Schweinfurt on 26/27 April 1944.[2] After VE-Day, 467 Sqn RAAF arrived at RAF Metheringham to train with 106 Sqn for operations in the Far East but the end of the war overtook this plan and the squadron was used to fly POW's and troops home, principally from Italian bases [3] until it finally disbanded at Metheringham, on 18 Feb 1946.[8] {{clear left}}Post war reformationThe squadron was reformed – as 106(SM) Sqn. – on 22 July 1959 as one of 20 Strategic Missile (SM) squadrons associated with Project Emily. The squadron was equipped with three Thor Intermediate range ballistic missiles. and based at RAF Bardney.[3] In October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the squadron was kept at full readiness, with the missiles aimed at strategic targets in the USSR. The squadron was disbanded on 24 May 1963, with the termination of the Thor Program in Britain.[3] Aircraft operated
Bomber Command World War II Bases
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References1. ^{{cite book|last1=Pine|first1=L.G.|title=A dictionary of mottoes|date=1983|publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul|location=London|isbn=0-7100-9339-X|page=182|edition=1}} 2. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/bombercommandno106squadron.cfm |title=Bomber Command: No.106 Squadron |work=Royal Air Force |year=2015 |accessdate=11 October 2015}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 {{cite book |title=Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft |publisher=Orbis |year=1985 |volume=17 |issue=194}} 4. ^<106 Squadron ORB AIR/27/831> 5. ^<106 Squadron ORB AIR/27/831> 6. ^<106 Squadron ORB AIR/27/831> 7. ^<106 Squadron ORB AIR/27/831> 8. ^{{cite book |authorlink=Bruce Barrymore Halpenny| last=Halpenny |first=Bruce Barrymore |title=Action Stations: Wartime Military Airfields of Lincolnshire and the East Midlands (Volume II) |year=1981 |location=Cambridge |publisher=Patrick Stephens |isbn=9780850594843 |page=140}} 9. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.rafweb.org/Squadrons/Sqn%20Markings/SqnMark106-110.htm#106 |title=No. 106 Squadron Markings |first=M. B. |last=Barrass |work=Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation |year=2015 |accessdate=11 October 2015}} Bibliography
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