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No. 117 Squadron Royal Air Force   30th April 1941 New Squadron formed in Sudan 3rd November 1941 Relocated and requipped 18th November 1941 Supply lines 15th February 1942 Malta supplied 1st March 1942 Civilian aircraft pressed into service 5th March 1942 General Alexander taken to Burma 15th April 1942 Re-equipped 1st June 1942 Situation Report 1st July 1942 Blenheims transferred 15th August 1942 Replacement aircraft 21st August 1942 Poor cooperation 1st September 1942 Situation Report 19th November 1942 Big supply operation 9th January 1943 Relocated 6th March 1943 On the move 13th April 1943 Into Tunisia 23rd May 1943 Back to Libya for renewal 3rd June 1943 Delivery Flight shot down 15th June 1943 Detachment to Fez 28th June 1943 Supply runs 1st July 1943 Desert hardships 10th July 1943 Trip to Gibraltar 17th July 1943 Supplies transported into Sicily 3rd September 1943 Move to Sicily 2nd October 1943 Move into Italy 1st November 1943 Move to India 6th November 1943 Supply drop training 19th January 1944 Move to the Burma front 5th March 1944 Landing 6th March 1944 Operation Thursday 12th March 1944 On the Move 14th March 1944 Move to Imphal 18th March 1944 Operation Thursday 23rd March 1944 Supplies dropped 29th March 1944 Siege of Imphal 29th March 1944 Supplies to beseiged garrison town 11th April 1944 Sustained attack 17th April 1944 Night fighters brought in June 1944 Passage across India 1st June 1944 Lost without trace 6th June 1944 New C.O. appointed 25th June 1944 Moving south through Burma 1st November 1944 Rest and recuperation 10th December 1944 Back on ops 15th April 1945 Into Burma 19th August 1945 Move to Rangoon 3rd September 1945. PoWs returned from Malaya 8th September 1945 Plane Crashed Carrying POWS 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. 117 Squadron Royal Air Force during the Second World War 1939-1945. Smith Harry Allman. P/O 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. 117 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. 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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. 117 Squadron Royal Air Force? There are:2047 items tagged No. 117 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. P/O Harry Allman Smith 108 Squadron Harry Allman Smith, Pilot Officer 108 Squadron, 2nd July 1942 – 26th November 1942 My father Harry Smith joined the New Zealand Air Force in May 1941. He arrived in England from New Zealand via Canada on Christmas Eve 1941 and after various training courses involving spells at Honnington, South Cerney and Harwell/Mount Farm disembarked in the Middle East on 3rd June 1942 to join 108 Squadron. He served with the squadron as second pilot, flying Wellington 1c bombers from their desert airfield, based at Kilo 40, Kabrit, often at night. His targets were based around Tobruk, including the airfield, port and shipping, battlefields and transport movements in the area. His log book of course mostly just records times and dates and targets as well as statistics such as flying hours although he did occasionally note instances of “Caught in searchlight” “ Heavy flak” and on his 39th ops “Close call”. First pilots he flew with included Sgt Brookes, Ft Sgt Murray but mostly P/O Gunn. His last operational flight was a bombing raid on Heraklion airfield on Crete on November 23rd 1942, which was his 40th op. Also recorded were the aborted ops, usually due to an aircraft problem such as “port engine u/s” “dynamo u/s”, when the bomb load would be jettisoned on the way back to base. His last two flights (non ops) with 108 Squadron recorded in his Flying Log were in late November on 26th and 29th with Flight Sgt Murray as 1st Pilot, the laconic comments in the log book being respectively “Bags of fun” and “Cooks Tour”. Overall flying hours with 108 Squadron totalled 532.35 hrs. Of these Day Ops hour total was 26.55 hrs and Night Ops 213.35 hrs (He did 3 further bombing ops with 37 Squadron before transfer to 117 Squadron) Stephanie Santaana Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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