The squadron operates with a strength of about 29 out of the Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr. Annex.

[2] John Gillespie Magee, the author of the famous aviation poem, High Flight, was serving with 412 Squadron when he was killed in a mid-air collision in his Spitfire in 1941.

It was during late 1943 that the ace George "Screwball" Beurling scored his last air victory while serving with the squadron.

[5] On July 17, 1944, 412 Squadron pilot Charley Fox seriously injured Field Marshal Erwin Rommel during a strafing run.

[6] The squadron was moved to France in June 1944, days after the Allied landings and operated on continental Europe for the remainder of the war.