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RAF Argatala 6th December 1942 New Transport flights planned 1st January 1943 Support for Chindits February 1943 Operation Longcloth 5th March 1943 Detachment relocated 31st March 1943 Report for March 13th January 1944 Supplies flown in 9th February 1944 Operation over Burma 10th February 1944 Supply drop in the Arakan 11th February 1944 Supply drops 13th February 1944 Supply drops 14th February 1944 Maximum effort 16th February 1944 Day and night supply drops 17th February 1944 Damaged by ground fire 19th February 1944 Supply drops 21st February 1944 Two sorties 22nd February 1944 24 sorties 23rd February 1944 24 sorties again 25th February 1944 30 supply drops 27th February 1944 Glider towing practice 28th February 1944 Supplies to Arakan 2nd March 1944 Transport Aircraft moved for Chindit Operations 5th to 11th March 1944 Supplies to Arakan 6th to 8th March 1944 Paratroop dropping exercises 10th March 1944 Wounded evacuated 11th March 1944 Detachment returns 12th March 1944 Supplies to Chindits 13th March 1944 Supply drops 15th March 1944 Chindit supplies 18th March 1944 Reinforcements moved to Imphal 19th March 1944 Reinforcements delivered 20th March 1944 Detachment sent to Imphal again 23rd March 1944 Movement of RAF forces 24th March 1944 Quiet day for recovery 25th March 1944 Seige of Imphal 26th March 1944 Supplies 27th March 1944 Relief of seige 28th March 1944 Transport 29th March 1944 Supplies to Aberdeen 30th March 1944 Supplies to Aberdeen 31st March 1944 Supplies to Aberdeen 1st ? 4th April 1944 Supplies to Aberdeen 5th & 6th April 1944 Supplies dropped to White City 7th April 1944 Shot down on jungle airstrip 8th April 1944 Night flights deliver troops 9th April 1944 Dakota written off 10th April 1944 15 unsuccessful supply drops 11th April 1944 Dakota crashed in the jungle 14th April 1944 Transport 16-24th April 1944 Supplies delivered 25th April 1944 Two Daks missing 26-27th April 1944 Chindit supplies 28-29th April 1944 Supplies delivered 2nd May 1944 Chindit Operations 3rd May 1944 Supplies and men transported 6th May 1944 Dakota crahsed in jungle 8th May 1944 Intensive shuttle service 12th May 1944 Mail rescued 16th May 1944 Supplies drops to Kohima aborted 21st May 1944 Relief crews 25th May 1944 Japanese occupy Blackpool 26th May 1944 Terrifying plunge over mountains May 1944 Transport flights day and night 4th June 1944 Shuttle service 6th June 1944 New C.O. appointed 8th June 1944 Chindit and Kohima ops 22nd June 1944 Detachment 23rd June 1944 2 supply aircraft crash at Imphal 28th June 1944 Detachment reinforced 1st July 1944 Routine transport 10th July 1944 New aircrew 1-31st July 1944 Appalling weather 1-31st August 1944 Daily operations September 1944 Move to Imphal 9th December 1944 Orders to move 10th December 1944 Transport Squadron relocated 11th December 1944 Back on operations 13th December 1944 Squadron reunited If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Those known to have served at RAF Argatala during the Second World War 1939-1945. This page is new, as yet no names have been submitted. 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 The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. Announcements The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 24 years. If you would like to support us, a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting and admin or this site will vanish from the web. 27th April 2024 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. 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