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Kent's Own: The History of 500 Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force Robin J Brooks

Kent's Own: The History of 500 Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force Robin J Brooks

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    Kent's Own: The History of 500 (County of Kent) Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force
    Robin J. Brooks
    FIRST EDITION.  Hard cover
    .
    Meresborough Books
    , 1982.  158
    pages.  Photographs. Near fine
    book without dust jacket.
    Shrieking from the clouds, the Stukas achieved the measure of surprise they needed. The accuracy of the raid was good. Every runway was hit, the length of them just bomb craters, rock and earth. Fires were started in all the hangers eventually spreading to enormous proportions. As the operations room disappeared in one large explosion, the Station Commander fell dead with a piece of jagged concrete driven straight through his skull. 500 Squadron was formed in 1930 at Manston in Kent. Initially recruited from Kent men and women, it became international when war broke out. The Battle Honours are the English Channel and North Sea, Dunkirk, Biscay Ports, Atlantic, North Africa, the Mediterranean and Italy. In peacetime, it won the coveted Cooper and Esher Trophy twice for the best performance in the auxiliary squadrons. Sadly, it fell victim to defence cuts in 1957 when allauxiliary squadrons were disbanded. The squadron may have disappeared from the Royal Air Force Order of Battle, but it will never be forgotten.Its history lies in the annals of the service and the fact that the Old Comrades Association of 500 Squadron holds an annual reunion at their ancestral home, RAF Manston in Kent.
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