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RAF - 945 Balloon
10/05/1940 - 30/06/1940

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Barrage balloons

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The editor of this page knows (at this moment) little about 945 Balloon Squadron in the period May/June 1940. See:

17 Balloon Centre - RAF Sutton on Hull
Balloon Barrage Reunion Club
BBC WW2 people's War: Barrage Balloons

for more information about the Barrage Balloon Squadrons

Polish Balloon Barrage Unit

Composed of 155 airmen this unit was formed in December 1940 as part of 945 Balloon Squadron. Some of the men came from pre-war balloon units who had escaped from Poland. From December 1940 to July 1942 it covered the north-west part of Glasgow. From July 1942 to Aug 1944 it was part of 929 Balloon Sqn and protected the north coast of the Firth of Forth including the Forth bridge, Rosyth and the Naval Air Station at Donibristle before moving to London at the time of the V1 offensive on England.

Source: SAW Polish Airforce - Balloon

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Losses 10/05/1940 - 30/06/1940

Aircraftman 2nd Class Michael J. Ward, RAF (AAF) 873302, 945 Balloon, age 35, 14/06/1940, Glasgow (Cragton) Cemetery, UK
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One of the losses of 945 Balloon Sqdn. later in the war:

133523 F/Leut. William MURPHY (D.F.C.) Royal Air Force, 23/051944


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Sources

17 Balloon Centre - RAF Sutton on Hull
Balloon Barrage Reunion Club
BBC WW2 people's War: Barrage Balloons
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
RAF - Campaign Diary - The Battle of France (May-June 1940)
RAF History - Bomber Command
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

War over Holland

Books

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Links

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
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
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
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 women and men of 945 Balloon 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