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No. 80 Squadron, Royal Air Force 10th June 1940 RAF resources in Egypt 4th August 1940 Melee 17th August 1940 Attack on Navy fleet 10th September 1940 Bombers intercepted 15th September 1940 Sidi Barrani lost 31st October 1940 Air battle over Mersa Matruh 1st Dec 1940 Transfers to Greece 1st May 1941 Withdrawal 19 May 1941 Hurricanes obtained 18th November 1941 Operation Crusader 18th November 1941 Patrols 31st January 1942 Rested and re-equipped 5th April 1942 Airfield bombed 28th May 1942 Hasty withdrawal 30th June 1942 Retreat 18th Sept 1942 To Palestine 22nd October 1942 To the front line 16th November 1942 To Tobruk 6th March 1943 Exercise Spartan April 1943 Re-equipped 23rd June 1943 Operation Thetis January 1944 To Italy April 1944 Move to Britain 19th May 1944 On the move 6th June 1944 D-Day 6th June 1944 Invasion 5th July 1944 Moved and re-equipped 29th August 1944 V1 site attacks 20th September 1944 Into Europe 22nd April 1945 Passenger flights If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Logbooks Do you have a WW2 Flying Log Book in your possession? If so it would be a huge help if you could add logbook entries to our new database. Thank you. View Logbook entries Those known to have served with No. 80 Squadron, Royal Air Force during the Second World War 1939-1945. Cullen DFC. Richard Nigel. Flt.Lt. (d.4th March 1941) Fraser Kenneth William. F/Lt. Poole Albert Henry. Simm George. Sykes Harold Ugo. F/O. (d.28th Nov 1940) 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 Records of No. 80 Squadron, Royal Air Force from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. Announcements 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time. The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 25 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. 16th Jan 2025 - 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. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 265273 your information is still in the queue, please do not resubmit, we are working through them as quickly as possible. Looking for help with Family History Research?   Please read our Family History FAQs The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the War? Our Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to WW2. We would like to obtain digital copies of any documents or photographs relating to WW2 you may have at home. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. World War 1 One ww1 wwII second 1939 1945 battalion Did you know? We also have a section on The Great War. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. Want to know more about No. 80 Squadron, Royal Air Force? There are:2027 items tagged No. 80 Squadron, Royal Air Force available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. Flt.Lt. Richard Nigel "Ape" Cullen DFC. 80 Squadron. (d.4th March 1941) Richard Cullen was the son of Horace David and H. Cullen, of Putney, London. He was aged 23 when he was killed in action during the Battle of Greece. He is buried in the Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery in Albania. s flynn Add to this record. F/O. Harold Ugo Sykes 80 Squadron (d.28th Nov 1940) Harold Sykes was 22 when he died. He was the son of Jack Sykes and of Inez Sykes (nee Barbier); husband of Dea Valerie Sykes, of Monkseaton, Northumberland. He is buried in the Churchyard of the Twelve Apostles, Drovian, Albania s flynn Add to this record. George Simm 80 Squadron George Simm served in 80 Squadron, Royal Air Force Colin Sim Add to this record. Albert Henry Poole 80 Squadron Albert Henry Poole served as ground crew for 80 Squadron RAF Frances Poole Add to this record. F/Lt. Kenneth William Fraser 80 Squadron My father Ken Fraser joined the RAF in 1939 and served until 1945. He was in 80 Squadron in Communications (wireless). He was in West Sussex at the end of war and I remember him telling us when Radar first came in. I have not been able to find anything about his service. He had a driver called Reynolds. In 1945-6 he was in Belgium and Germany and sent many letters to my mother . I have photos of him with jeep in Belgium. He left service as Squadron Leader but have very little knowledge of his records which must be somewhere. I would be grateful for any information!! M Davis Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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