The USAAF quickly adopted the system used by the Royal Air Force to identify squadrons, using fuselage codes of two letters (later letter-numeral when squadrons became too numerous) to denote a squadron and a third single letter to identify the aircraft within the squadron.
Some aircraft were identified by numbers painted on their fuselage. Its initial deployments to the European and African theaters in 1942 involved relatively small numbers of fighter and bomber aircraft and no system of Group identification was used. Originally Training Wing to form in Canada, never activated Īrmy Cooperation wing with British Expeditionary Force (BEF) Air Component in France 1939–40, Nos 4, 13, and 16 Squadrons flying Westland Lysanders.At the beginning of the war the USAAF was a small service in comparison to the air forces of the combatants fighting since 1939. Originally RFC Training Wing formed in Canada Originally RFC day bomber wing at Azelot (HQ at Lupcourt) in Independent Air Force (IAF) October 1917 – November 1918 with 55 ( DH4), 99 and 104 Sqns ( DH9) Originally RFC Army Wing 1917–18: in Palestine Brigade, with 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps ( Bristol Fighter and Handley Page), 111 ( SE-5A), 144 ( DH-9) and 145 (SE-5A) Squadrons September 1944 – May 1945: in 83 Group, 2nd TAF in North West Europe with 400 (RCAF), 414 (RCAF) and 430 (RCAF) (Spitfire) Sqns All three constituent squadrons disbanded at Lüneburg Airfield in August 1945, and there is an additional note that the wing disbanded at Lüneburg on 2 August 1945. RCAF Reconnaissance Wing June 1944: in 83 Group, 2nd TAF at Odiham with Nos 168, 414 (RCAF) and 430 (RCAF) Squadrons ( Mustang I), 400 (RCAF) Squadron (Spitfire PRXI) 99 Squadron RAF with Boeing C-17 Globemaster III.
Originally RFC Flying Training Wing based at Shawbury (No. Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Fighter Wing Originally RFC Training/Home Defence Wing įighter Wing in 2nd Tactical Air Force Originally RFC Army Wing on Italian Front January–November 1918 Signals Wing controlling radar units in France Įxisted concurrently in East Africa, controlling 26 Sqn Originally RFC 1917–18: Corps Artillery Wing in Palestine Brigade, with 14 and 113 Squadrons ( RE 8 and Nieuport), 142 Squadron (RE 8 and Armstrong Whitworth) Ĭontrolled all fighter squadrons north of the Thames Ĭontrolled 3, 35, 47 and 207 Sqns during the Abyssinia Crisis General Reconnaissance Wing during Spanish Civil War with 209 and 210 Squadrons īomber Wing in Egypt with 30 and 55 Sqns Originally Royal Flying Corps (RFC) Corps Wing The wing's squadrons at the time (including two from the Australian Flying Corps), are: 4 Sqn AFC, 88 Sqn RAF, 4 Sqn AFC, 92 Sqn RAF, 103 Sqn RAF, 46 Sqn RAF, and 54 Sqn RAF. 80 Wing RAF between July and November that year. In late 1918, a scoreboard lists the claims for aircraft destroyed by No.