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|unit_name= No. 653 Squadron RAF |image= |caption= |dates= 20 Jun 1942 – 15 Sep 1945 |country= {{flagicon|UK}} United Kingdom |allegiance= |branch= Royal Air Force |type= |role= Air Observation Post Squadron |size= |command_structure= |garrison= |garrison_label= |nickname= |patron= |motto=Latin: Ubique Speculabundus (Translation: "The eyes of the guns are everywhere")[1] |colors= |colors_label= |march= |mascot= |equipment= |equipment_label= |battles= |anniversaries= |decorations= |battle_honours= |commander1= |commander1_label= |commander2= |commander2_label= |commander3= |commander3_label= |notable_commanders= |identification_symbol= In front of two gun barrels in saltire, an eagle's head affrontée erased[1] |identification_symbol_label= Squadron badge heraldry |identification_symbol_2= |identification_symbol_2_label= |aircraft_recon= Taylorcraft Auster |aircraft_trainer= de Havilland Tiger Moth }} No. 653 Squadron RAF was a unit of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Squadron Numbers 651 to 663 were Air Observation Post units working closely with British Army units in artillery spotting and liaison. A further three of these squadrons, 664–666, were manned with Canadian personnel. Their duties and squadron numbers were transferred to the Army with the formation of the Army Air Corps on 1 September 1957.[2][3] The squadron is now No. 653 Squadron AAC HistoryNo. 653 Squadron was formed at RAF Old Sarum, Wiltshire, on 20 June 1942.[5] In September 1942, the squadron was deployed to RAF Penshurst.[4] The squadron relocated to Normandy on 27 June 1944,[5] in support of the British Second Army and the Operation Overlord landings. Most of its pilots and observers came from the British Army, while maintenance was carried out by RAF personnel. The squadron moved with the Second Army through France, Belgium and the Netherlands into Germany, and was disbanded at Hoya in Germany in September 1945, after the German surrender.[6] PresentNo. 653 Squadron came into being again in Cyprus on 11 May 1958, but now as a squadron of the Army Air Corps and served in Aden from 9 March 1961 till 1967,[7] and today it is represented as No. 653 Squadron AAC of 3 Regiment Army Air Corps, flying the Apache attack helicopter. Aircraft operated
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1. ^1 2 Halley 1988, p. 446. 2. ^Halley 1988, p. 444. 3. ^Jefford 2001, pp. 102–105. 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.leighhistorical.org.uk/References/Leigh_at_War.pdf |title=Leigh in the War, 1939–45 |publisher=Leigh and District Historical Society |date=September 1993 |accessdate=13 January 2010}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalcoldwarexhibition.org/explore/squadron.cfm?number=653 |title=No.653 Squadron|publisher=National Cold War Exhibition |accessdate=13 January 2010}} 6. ^1 2 Jefford 2001, p. 103. 7. ^Farrar-Hockley 1994, p. 237.
|title=The Army in the Air: The History of the Army AIr Corps|year=1994|place=Stroud, Gloustershire, UK|publisher= Allan Sutton Publishing Ltd. |isbn= 0-7509-0617-0}}
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