On 20 May, the squadron carried out a low-altitude bombing raid on the Rumbeke airfield scoring direct hits on hangars.

[2][3] It was reformed at RAF Scampton on 7 June 1937 with the Hawker Audax and the Vickers Wellesley and moved twice before being disbanded and merged into No.

After moving to Egypt, the squadron supported the Eighth Army in the North African campaign.

Moved back to Malta in December 1942, the squadron was disbanded with its crews and aircraft being transferred to other units.

[2][4] With the expansion of the Royal Air Force Special Duties Service, the unit was reformed in 1943 as No.

148 (Special Duties) Squadron equipped with Handley Page Halifax and Consolidated Liberator bombers.

As a special duties squadron, the unit's aircraft dropped supplies to partisans in southern France, Italy, the Balkans, and Poland.

Working closely with the SOE, the squadron also parachuted agents to various locations in Europe, while its flight of Westland Lysanders under the command of Peter Vaughan-Fowler did agent pick-up operations to Greece, Yugoslavia and southern France.