No. 44 Squadron RAF
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! No. 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron of the Royal Air Force is no longer operational. For most of its history it served as a heavy bomber squadron. 44 Squadron was formed on 24 July 1917 as a Home Defence Corps. The squadron pioneered the use of the Sopwith Camel in night fighter operations. By the end of the First World War it was commanded by Arthur Harris, later known as Bomber Harris. Disbanded in 1919, the squadron was reformed as a bomber squadron in March 1937 and equipped with Hawker Hinds. Moving to RAF Waddington later that year, it was equipped with…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! No. 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron of the Royal Air Force is no longer operational. For most of its history it served as a heavy bomber squadron. 44 Squadron was formed on 24 July 1917 as a Home Defence Corps. The squadron pioneered the use of the Sopwith Camel in night fighter operations. By the end of the First World War it was commanded by Arthur Harris, later known as Bomber Harris. Disbanded in 1919, the squadron was reformed as a bomber squadron in March 1937 and equipped with Hawker Hinds. Moving to RAF Waddington later that year, it was equipped with Bristol Blenheims before changing to Handley Page Hampdens. During the war the squadron was subsequently based at RAF Dunholme Lodge,[1][2] near Dunholme, then RAF Spilsby at Great Steeping in Lincolnshire.