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No. 168 Squadron Royal Air Force    No.168 Squadron was formed at RAF Snailwell on 15th June 1942 as a tactical reconnaissance unit in Army Co-operation Command. The squadron was built around a nucleus from No.268 Squadron and was originally equipped with the Curtiss Tomahawk, but before it became operational these were replaced with Mustangs. The Squadron carried out a mixture of photo reconnaissance and fighter duties, attacking shipping and coastal targets, but spending much of its time training with the army. In the run up to D-Day it was used extensively to locate and photograph strategic German installations in Northern France. Three weeks after D-Day it moved to a beachhead airbase in France and then moved across France and into Belgium and the Netherlands continuing both in reconnaisssance and ground attack functions under army direction. In October 1944 it replaced the Mustangs with Hawker Typhoons armed with rockets and bombs, and its role changed to offensive operations. The squadron operated in the ground-attack role ahead of the advancing troops. The Squadron was disbanded at Eindhoven in February 1945. Airbases from which 168 Squadron was based: 15th June-July 1942: Snailwell July-November 1942: Bottisham November 1942-March 1943: Odiham March 1943: Weston Zoyland March-September 1943: Odiham September-October 1943: Hutton Cranswick October 1943: Huggate October-November 1943: Thruxton November 1943: Sawbridgworth November 1943-January 1944: North Weald January-February 1944: Llanbedr February-March 1944: North Weald March 1944: Gatwick March-June 1944: Odiham June-August 1944: B.8 Sommervieu August-September 1944: B.21 St. Honorine September 1944: B.34 Avrilly September-October 1944: B.64 Diest/ Schaffen October 1944-February 1945: B.78 Eindhoven.   15th June 1942 New Squadron formed July 1942 Move to army training base 6th August 1942 Training November 1942 New aircraft December 1942 Mustangs operational 16th March 1943 Missing over Abbeville July 1943 Transfer September 1943 On the move October 1943 Preparation for invasion 31st October 1943  Norwegian pilot killed 15th November 1943 Relocated 30th November 1943 On the move 14th January 1944 Pilot from Chile killed March 1944 Back to RAF Odiham 6th June 1944 Intelligence flights 8th June 1944 Photo recomnnaissance aircraft shot down 23rd June 1944 Photo recce aircraft shot down 27th June 1944 Move to Normandy 26th September 1944 Shot down into the Maas River October 1944 New aircraft for offensive role 1st January 1945 Operation Bodenplatte 1st January 1945 Operation Bodenplatte 2nd January 1945 Crash on take-off 2nd January 1945 Pilot killed and aircraft wrecked in landing accident 22nd January 1945 Typhoon missing 3rd February 1945 Missing over Germany 28th February 1945 Squadron disbanded If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. 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