166 Squadron RAF (166 Sqn) flying Armstrong Whitworth Whitleys to train night bomber crews.
[1] On June 20, 1943, in the Bay of Biscay, one of a pair of Whitleys operated by 10 OTU from St. Eval was shot down while attacking a submarine believed to be the Barbarigo, of the Italian navy.
[2] Between March and November 1944 the unit moved to RAF Stanton Harcourt whilst runways were laid at Abingdon with Vickers Wellingtons arriving from June.
During September the last Whitley left and later in the year, during December, it gained the control of the Polish Flight from No.
18 Operational Training Unit RAF (18 OTU), until June 1945 when the flight disbanded.