No. 115 Squadron RCAF

No. 115 Squadron RCAF
Active 1941-1944
Disbanded 23 August 1944
Country  Canada
Branch Royal Canadian Air Force
Role Bomber Reconnaissance
Nickname(s) Lynx
Motto(s) BEWARE
Battle honours Pacific Coast 1942-44

No. 115 Squadron was a Royal Canadian Air Force Canadian Home War Establishment (HWE) Squadron. It flew anti-submarine patrols on the British Columbian and Alaskan coasts as part of Western Air Command. On 7 July 1942, F/Sgt. PMG Thomas and the crew of his Bollingbroke attacked the Japanese submarine Ro32 damaging it badly and they then directed U.S. Destroyers to the scene which sunk it. The squadron disbanded at Tofino, British Columbia in August 1944.[1]

Equipment

Two letter Squadron code was BK from August 1939 - May 1942, UV until the use of squadron codes was discontinued in the RCAF HWE on 16 October 1942 "for security reasons".[2]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "The History & Heritage of the Royal Canadian Air Force". Canadian Wings. Retrieved 2014-05-15.
  2. ↑ Kostenuk & Griffin, 1977, p. 233

References

  • Kostenuk, S. and J. Griffin. RCAF Squadron Histories and Aircraft: 1924–1968. Toronto: Samuel Stevens, Hakkert & Company, 1977. ISBN 0-88866-577-6.
  • No. 115 Squadron.
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