No.59 Squadron RAF

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No.59 Squadron RAF
Group Squadron Base County Arrived Comments
16 59 Thorney Island Hampshire 05/07/40 Ex-Fighter Command.
16 59 Detling Kent 01/06/41 Day of month arbitrary. Hudson IIIa, 07/41.
16 59 Thorney Island Hampshire 01/08/41 Day of month arbitrary. Hudson V, 12/41.
16 59 North Coates Lincolnshire 01/01/42 Day of month arbitrary. Hudson, VI, 07/42.
16 59 Thorney Island Hampshire 01/08/42 Day of month arbitrary. Liberator III, 08/42. Fortress II, 12/42. Fortress IIa, 12/42.
19 59 Chivenor Devon 01/02/43 Day of month arbitrary.
16 59 Thorney Island Hampshire 01/03/43 Day of month arbitrary. Liberator V, 04/43.
15 59 Aldergrove County Antrim 01/05/43 Day of month arbitrary.
15 59 Ballykelly Londonderry 01/09/43 Day of month arbitrary. Liberator VIII, 03/45.
59 Waterbeach 10/06/45 Liberator VI, 06/45. Disbanded 15/06/46.
           
15 59 St. Eval Cornwall 17/10/40 Detachment. Left 18/10/40.
15 59 St. Eval Cornwall 11/11/40 Detachment. Left 12/11/40.
15 59 St. Eval Cornwall 14/11/40 Detachment. Left 15/11/40.
16 59 Manston Kent 01/01/41 Date arbitrary. Detachment. Left 06/41.
15 59 St. Eval Cornwall 01/01/41 Date arbitrary. Detachment. Left 06/41.
16 59 Bircham Newton Norfolk 01/01/41 Date arbitrary. Detachment. Left 06/41.
16 59 Detling Kent 01/01/41 Date arbitrary. Detachment. Left 06/41.
16 59 Detling Kent 01/08/41 Date arbitrary. Detachment. Left 01/42.
16 59 Bircham Newton Norfolk 01/08/41 Date arbitrary. Detachment. Left 01/42.
19 59 St. Eval Cornwall 01/08/42 Date arbitrary. Detachment. Left 02/43.
19 59 Chivenor Devon 01/08/42 Date arbitrary. Detachment. Left 02/43.
19 59 St. Eval Cornwall 01/05/43 Date arbitrary. Detachment. Left 09/43.
Gibraltar 59 North Front Gibraltar 01/05/43 Date arbitrary. Detachment. Left 09/43.
Iceland 59 Reykjavik Iceland 30/09/43 Detachment. Left 06/11/43.
Iceland 59 Geck (Keflavik) Iceland 04/08/44 Detachment. Left 06/09/44.
Copyright: Ross McNeill April 2000