No. 232 Group RAF
Appearance
No. 232 (Transport) Group RAF | |
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Active | 24 February 1945 - 15 August 1946 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Branch | Royal Air Force |
Type | Royal Air Force group |
Part of | RAF Transport Command |
Engagements | Second World War |
No. 232 (Transport) Group RAF (232 Gp) was a group of the Royal Air Force, active between 1945 and 1946.
History
[edit]No. 232 Group was formed 24 February 1945, in Comilla, from the RAF element of the Combat Cargo Task Force, and appears to have included No. 436 Squadron RCAF.[1] Leaving a detachment at Comilla the group headquarters relocated to Rangoon during October. In March 1946 it moved to Singapore, where it disbanded on 15 August 1946. It was officially a Transport Command Group, operating under control of HQ Air Command South-East Asia.[2] Air Commodore Alfred Earle was Air Officer Commanding, having arrived from command of No. 300 Group RAF in Australia.[3]
It had a communication squadron, No. 232 Group Communication Squadron.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "436 Squadron".
- ^ Barrass, M. B. (2015). "Groups 200–333". Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
- ^ Sir Alfred Earle Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
- ^ Lake 1999.
- Lake, A (1999). Flying units of the RAF. Shrewsbury: Airlife. ISBN 1-84037-086-6.
- http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C30623 - records at National Archives, Kew
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