Hi, Heres another couple of strange photographs...RAF Roundels but the Sqdn codes are....? and the groundcrew are....RAF ? Do you think these are some of the 38 pilots and 500 ground staff sent to Archangel/Murmansk in Russia during the War ?...but why the strange Sqdn Codes? Verrieres
FR is 303 Sqn THey were a Polish unit. Wait a minute one site says they are RF ...Tut ! Sqn Histories 330-350_P Says: No.348 Sqn- This squadron was never formed but the code letters FR were allocated for its use during the period April to September 1939.
FR is 303 Sqn THey were a Polish unit. Wait a minute one site says they are RF ...Tut ! I`m totally out of my comfort zone here but would`nt British/Polish Sqdn codes consist of three letters ie;-D (roundel) FR ? or am I showing my ignorance here and missing the obvious...Again Verrieres
RAF Codes FR = Station Flight. Manston. No.303 Squadron code was PD Looks like they had RF too for most of the war. No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 303 Squadron Codes: RF (Aug 1940 - Apr 1945) PD (Apr 1945 – Dec 1946)
There was a Plan to give the Russians some Aerial assistance by sending R.A.F. Squadrons based on Russian Caucasus. Could this be them. I glanced through "Operation Buckshot" a few months ago. It appears the Document was Persia and Iraq Command.
151 Wing operated in Russia. No. 151 Wing RAF - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia See my thread here. http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/war-air/13959-hurricane-z5252-recovery-151-wing.html
FR is 303 Sqn THey were a Polish unit. Wait a minute one site says they are RF ...Tut ! Sqn Histories 330-350_P Says: No.348 Sqn- This squadron was never formed but the code letters FR were allocated for its use during the period April to September 1939. And Urqh said that the British regimental system was too hard for us to figure out....
might be a necro post but to clarify the squadron code point. for the RAF aircraft in russia, the first letter was half of the squadron code. The second letter is the aircrafts ID letter. the numbers are the russian reference. These codes were applied as long as the aircraft were flown by the RAF squadrons and were removed once the aircraft were handed over to the russians.