No. 9 Squadron RCAF

No. 9 Squadron RCAF
Active9 December 1941 - 1 September 1944
Disbanded1 September 1944
Country Canada
Allegiance Canada
Branch Royal Canadian Air Force
RoleBomber Reconnaissance
Part ofWestern Air Command
Battle honoursPacific Coast 1941-1944[1]
Insignia
Unit CodesKA (1939-1942),
HJ (1942)
Aircraft flown
PatrolSupermarine Stranraer
Consolidated Canso
Consolidated Catalina
Military unit

No. 9 Squadron RCAF was a Royal Canadian Air Force squadron active during the Second World War, primarily in an anti-submarine role with Western Air Command and was based at Bella Bella, British Columbia. The squadron flew the Supermarine Stranraer, Consolidated Canso and Consolidated Catalina before disbanding on 1 September 1944.[2]

References

Citations

  1. ^ DND Directorate of History and Heritage
  2. ^ Canadian Wings

Bibliography

  • Kostenuk, S.; Griffin, J. (1977). RCAF Squadron Histories and Aircraft: 1924–1968. Toronto, ON: Samuel Stevens, Hakkert & Co. p. 31. ISBN 978-0888665775.
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Squadron
numbers
Pre-WWII Squadrons
100-series squadrons
WW2 400-series
Article XV squadrons
WW2 600-series
AOP squadrons1
Post-war squadrons
Squadron
codes
WW2 Canada
1 August 1939 - May 1942
Unit formation in 1940 - May 1942
  • AN
  • BF
  • GK
  • GV
  • LU
  • PO
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Dartmouth Hurricanes 1942
May 1942 - 16 October 1942
WW2 Overseas
1940-1946
Operational squadrons
Transport squadrons
Post-WW2
1947 - 1958
1947 - 1951 (VCXXA)3
1951 - 1958 (XXnnn)4
1 Aircraft administered and serviced by the RCAF but manned by the Royal Canadian Artillery.
2 Non-standard code as unit using OW added L. Letters normally denoted parent Command, aircraft type (L Liberator transport, D Dakota etc), unit, and individual aircraft.

3 VCXXA where VC was the civil code used by the RCAF replacing CF-, XX was the unit code and A was the aircraft ID letter

4 XXnnn where XX was the unit code and nnn was the last 3 digits of the serial number. Unit code was replaced with "RCAF" in 1958


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