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No. 174 (Mautritius) Squadron Royal Air Force   3rd March 1942 New Squadron formed 27th April 1942 Hurricane lost over France 5th June 1942 Rescue by RNLI 1st July 1942  Killed in flying accident 19th Aug 1942 Dieppe Raid 1st September 1942 Squadron relocated 4th Sep 1942 Postings 14th Sep 1942 Postings 20th September 1942 Squadron returned to RAF Manston 18th October 1942 Typhoon pilots train on Hurricanes 9th November 1942 Aircraft demo to US Army 29th November 1942  Pilot killed 6th December 1942 Training for army cooperation tasks 28th February 1943 Exercise Spartan 1st March 1943 Digging latrines 2nd March 1943 Exercise Spartan 3rd March 1943 Exercise Spartan 3rd March 1943 Exercise Spartan 4th March 1943 Exercise Spartan 5th March 1943 Exercise Spartan 6th March 1943 Exercise Spartan 7th March 1943 Exercise Spartan 7th March 1943 Exercise Spartan 8th March 1943 Exercise Spartan 8th March 1943 Exercise Spartan 9th March 1943 Exercise Spartan 10th March 1943 Exercise Spartan 11th March 1943 Exercise Spartan 12th March 1943 Exercise Spartan ends 13th March 1943 Squadron missing 14th March 1943 Squadron divided 15th March 1943 No information 18th March 1943 Still no information 20th March 1943 Attachment to continue 23rd March 1943 Rumours 24th March 1943 Drum delivered 26th March 1943 Move planned? 28th March 1943 Move confirmed: move cancelled 30th March 1943 Dithering 31st March 1943 Grant given to buy drum 1st April 1943 Anniversary of the RAF 4th April 1943 Records in error? 5th April 1943 Pilots on the move 6th April 1943 Stylish billets 7th April 1943 Ground crew to be disbanded 8th April 1943 New Typhoons arrive 9th April 1943 Posting 11th April 1943 Attachment 14th April 1943 Ground staff disbanded 16th April 1943 Ground collision 20th April 1943 Squadron move completed 4th May 1943 Killed in training 12th June 1943 Move to 2nd Tactical Airforce 14th July 1943 Operational once more 14th July 1943 Inspection 30th July 1943 Mid-air collision over Dunkirk 9th August 1943 Operations aborted 16th August 1943  Shot down by flak 19th August 1943 Rescued from the sea by an old friend 10th October 1943 Relocated 19th November 1943 Missing at Sea 7th January 1944 Mid-air collision over France January 1944 Rockets fitted to Typhoons 14th February 1944 Return to operations 14th February 1944 Pilot sheltered in occupied France for 6 months 14th February 1944 Long range sweep to the Loire 18th February 1944 Mosquitos bomb prison at Amiens 18th February 1944 Two Typhoons lost on Operation Jericho 28th February 1944 Attack on ship 3rd March 1944 Fighter patrol 6th March 1944 Crashed in the sea 1st April 1944 Doodle Bugs 5th June 1944 Radar station attacked 12th June 1944  Typhoon pilot missing 17th June 1944 Move to Normandy 18th June 1944 Oil dump bombed 18th July 1944 Cab-rank operations 26th July 1944 Shot down 29th July 1944 Armed reconnaissance 5th August 1944 Killed in Normandy 10th August 1944 Typhoon crashed in Normandy 16th August 1944 Battle of Falaise September 1944 Moves November 1944 Respite break 22nd January 1945 High serviceability 24th February 1945 Aircraft Shot down March 1945 On the Move 3rd April 1945 Crash in bad weather 8th April 1945 Squadron disbanded 12th April 1945 More pilots transfer in 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. 174 (Mautritius) Squadron Royal Air Force during the Second World War 1939-1945. Russell-Smith . 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. 174 (Mautritius) 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. 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I have some ORBs for 184 plus a few photos and would be interested to hear from anyone else who served in these squadrons. Dave Russell-Smith Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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