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No. 311(Czechoslovak) Squadron Royal Air Force
No 311 Squadron was formed at Honington on the 29th of July 1940 from members of the Czech Air Force who had been serving in France and who had escaped to Britain when France fell. It started is a bomber squadron with Wellingtons, part of No 3 Group until April 1942 when it was transferred to Coastal Command. Flying a general reconnaissance role, it also took part in the third raid on Bremen. In June 1945 No 311 Squadron transferred to Transport Command, flying between Britain and Czechoslovakia. From August 1945 it flew from Prague. It was disbanded in February 1946.
Airfields
No. 311 Squadron
flew from:
- RAF Honington, Suffolk from the 29th July 1940 (formed, Wellington Ia, Wellington Ic. Bomber Command)
- RAF East Wretham, Norfolk from the 16th September 1940
- RAF Aldergrove, County Antrim from the 30th April 1942 (to Coastal Command, Wellington Ic)
- RAF Talbenny, Pembrokeshire, from the 12th of June 1942
- RAF Beaulieu, Hampshire, from the 26th of May 1943 (Liberator V)
- RAF Predannack, Cornwall, from the 23rd of February 1944 (Liberator VI)
- RAF Tain from the 7th August 1944
- RAF Milltown, Cumbria from the 25th June 1945
- RAF Manston from the 6th August 1945
- Prague from the 21st August 1945
- disbanded the 15th February 1946
17th Oct 1940 311 squadron Wellington lost
07 February 1941 311 squadron Wellington lost
17th Mar 1941 Aircraft Lost
18th March 1941 Feature film made at operational base.
16th Apr 1941 Aircraft Lost
17th Apr 1941 Eleven Aircraft Lost
25th May 1941 Aircraft Lost
22nd Jun 1941 Aircraft Lost
1st Jul 1941 Aircraft Lost
16th Jul 1941 Aircraft Lost
19th Jul 1941 Aircraft Lost
15th Sep 1941 Aircraft Lost
26th Sep 1941 Aircraft Lost
20th October 1941 Aircraft Lost
23rd Oct 1941 Aircraft Lost
28th Dec 1941 Aircraft Lost
9th Jan 1942 Aircraft Lost
17th Jan 1942 Aircraft Lost
27th December 1943 Blockade runner sunk
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P/O. Leo Michael Anderle DFC. 138 Squadron (d.10th December 1942) Leo Anderle served with 138 Squadron SOE and piloted six dangerous flights over occupied Czechoslovakia in 1941 and 1942 with 138 Squadron Halifax bombers for the SOE, dropping armed para groups behind enemy lines in Operations, Out Distance, Bioskop, Bivouac, Intransitive and Antimony.
He was shot down and is buried at El Alamein, Egypt.
He had also served with the Czechoslovak 311 Bomber Squadron
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