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RAF - No. 266 (Rhodesia) Squadron
10/05/1940 - 30/06/1940

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266 SQUADRON - Fighter, Supermarine Spitfire Mk I

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On 30 October 1939, No 266 Squadron reformed at Sutton Bridge and was intended to be a Blenheim squadron. None were received and after training with Battles, it began to receiver Spitfires in January 1940. These it took into action for the first time on 2 June over Dunkirk and during August was based in south-east England, then returned to Wittering.

Stations
Wittering (D) 7 April 1940
Wittering (C) 14 May 1940
Tangmere 9 August 1940
Eastchurch 12 August 1940
Hornchurch 14 August 1940
Wittering 21 August 1940


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Operations and losses 10/05/1940 - 30/06/1940
Not all operations listed; those with fatal losses are.

02/06/1940: Patrol, Dunkirk. 2 Planes lost, 1 KIA, 1 MIA

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02/06/1940: Patrol, Dunkirk

Type:
Spitfire Mk I
Serial number: ?, UO-?
Operation: Patrol, Dunkirk
Lost: 02/06/1940
Sergeant (Pilot) Ronald T. Kidman, RAFVR 741442, 266 Sqdn., age 26, 02/06/1940, Dunkirk Town Cemetery, F

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Type: Spitfire Mk I
Serial number: ?, UO-?
Operation: Patrol, Dunkirk
Lost: 02/06/1940
Pilot Officer James W.B. Stevenson, RAF 42158, 266 Sqdn., age 24, 02/06/1940, missing

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Sources

Air of Authority - 266 Squadron
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database
Australian War Memorial
Bail-outs for 1940
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Prisoners of War captured in Europe 1940
Royal Air Force - 266 Squadron
RAF Battle of Britain - 266 Squadron
RAF - Campaign Diary - The Battle of France (May-June 1940)
RAF Museum: British Military Aviation in 1940
RAF Order of Battle, France, 10th May 1940
Royal Air Force History Section
The Royal Air Force, 1939-1945
The Second World War - a day by day account

The War in France and Flanders, 1939-1940, by Major L.F. Ellis, 1954

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Books

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Links

Abbreviations used in the Royal Air Force
Air Aces
Airwar over Denmark
Allied World War II Casualties in the Netherlands
Armée de l'Air - Order of Battle, 10th May 1940
Australian Wargraves
Axis History Factbook
Battle-of-Britain.com
De Belgen in Engeland 1940-1945 (in Dutch)
Belgian Aviation History Association Archaeological Team
British Aircraft Directory
British Aviation Archaeological Council - Books and research links
Canada's Air Force History
HMS Cavalier
Ciel de Gloire (in French) RAF Squadrons
CWGC Cemeteries Germany
CWGC Cemeteries Netherlands
Czechoslovak airmen in the RAF 1940-1945
Danish WW2 Pilots

Dutch Pilots in RAF Squadrons
Eagles Squadrons (American pilots in the RAF)
Håkans aviation page (from Sweden, in English)
'High flight', poem by John Gillespie Magee
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, poem by W.B. Yeats
Jagdgeschwader 27 (in German)
Luchtoorlog ('Arial War', in Dutch, with many photos)
Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth
The Luftwaffe, 1933-1945
Luftwaffe and Allied Air Forces Discussion Forum
The National Ex-Prisoners of War Association
Naval History.net
Nordic Aviation during WW2
Pilotfriend.com: aircraft of WW2
Polish Air Force 1940-1947 Operations Record Books
RAF Battle of Britain
RAF Upwood
De Slag om de Grebbeberg
(Dutch)
Warbird Alley
War over Holland
World War II Aircraft wrecksites in Norway
www.bomber-command.de

Bills-Bunker.de
The Lancastershire Aircraft Investigation Team
Luftfahrt-Archäologie in Schleswig Holstein (in German)
North East Diary 1939-1945
Wartime Leicester and Leicestershire

The Aerodrome - Aces and Aircraft of World War 1
WW1 Cemeteries

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This page is dedicated to the men of 266 Squadron.

© Bart FM Droog / Rottend Staal Online 2008. Permission granted for use of the data gathered here for non commercial purposes, if this source is mentioned with a link to http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/index.html