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No. 140 Squadron Royal Air Force   April 1940 Photo Recce Spitfires in France 16th June 1940 Spitfire seized by the Germans 15th November 1940 Blenheim reconnaissance 10th March 1941 New Photo reconnaissance Flight formed 10th July 1941 Blenheims deployed on photo reconnaissance 5th September 1941 Move to RAF Benson 17th September 1941 Recce Flight upgraded to Squadron 10th October 1941 Temporary relocation 15th May 1942 Photo survey of French Atlantic Coast 24th February 1943 Preparations for Exercise Spartan 1st March 1943 Relocated 5th August 1943  Mid-air collision 10th August 1943 New aircraft 24th November 1943 Injured in flying accident 15th December 1943 Night photography capability 2nd January 1944 Crashed and on fire 5th April 1944 Move to Britain 7th April 1944 Transfer to 2TAF for invasion planning May 1944 Mapping Northern France 5th June 1944 Shot down on recce 6th June 1944 shot down looking for V1 launch sites 4th July 1944  Attacked by 12 enemy aircraft 15th July 1944 Crashed in Windsor Great Park 12th August 1944 Crash on take-off 3rd September 1944 Move to France 13th September 1944 Escaped from collision with Me109 14th September 1944 Missing over Hamburg 15th September 1944 Move to Belgium 29th September 1944 Unexplained flying accident 30th September 1944 On the move 2nd October 1944 Shot down by friendly fire 6th October 1944 Shot down by the USAAF 6th November 1944 Navigator killed 1st January 1945 Operation Bodenplatte 1st January 1945 Narrow escape 23rd January 1945 Shot down on reconnaissance 19th March 1945 Killed in crash If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Logbooks Do you have a WW2 Flying Log Book in your possession? If so it would be a huge help if you could add logbook entries to our new database. Thank you. View Logbook entries Those known to have served with No. 140 Squadron Royal Air Force during the Second World War 1939-1945. Flight DFC & bar, AFC. Ronald Stanley. F/Lt. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of No. 140 Squadron Royal Air Force from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. Announcements The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 24 years. 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If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the War? Our Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. We are now on Facebook. Like this page to receive our updates. If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to WW2. We would like to obtain digital copies of any documents or photographs relating to WW2 you may have at home. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. World War 1 One ww1 wwII second 1939 1945 battalion Did you know? We also have a section on The Great War. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. Want to know more about No. 140 Squadron Royal Air Force? There are:2036 items tagged No. 140 Squadron Royal Air Force available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. F/Lt. Ronald Stanley Flight DFC & bar, AFC. 151 Sqd. My father, Ronald Flight, served in the Second World War, starting as a flying instructor in London. He served with his cousins John Baylis and Roy Flight (who later was taken as POW). My father served several tours and did a lot of photographic work. He and my mother, Joan Eve, married during the war. As it was wartime, there was only one wedding dress available in the area they lived and the women shared it. My father's navigator was Brian Douglas Mackins - and they flew together all through the war and both survived. They both received their DFC after their aircraft was shot at over Germany. They managed to keep it in the air long enough to get back to base in UK - my father said that at times they were skimming the tops of hedges and sea waves as they were flying so low. Judith Flight Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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