247 Group (247 Gp) was formed in October 1943 within RAF Coastal Command to control units operating from the Azores.

On 8 October the group arrived into Angra do Heroísmo on Terceira Island, within the Azores, having travelled on the HMT Franconia, which was an ocean liner that had been requisitioned as a troopship.

[2] Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Rhodes Bromet KBE, CB, DSO, DL was appointed AOC on the 18 September 1943 – The group initially controlled three units:[2] detachments from both Nos.

172 and 179 Squadrons, both units equipped with Vickers Wellington XIV,[3] a twin-engined, long-range medium bomber and this variant had ASV Mark III radar and rocket rails under the wings, and No.

[5] Maritime patrols started on 20 October 1943 and by the end of the month the initial squadrons were joined by a detachment of nine Lockheed Hudson, an American light bomber and coastal reconnaissance aircraft, from No.

The U-boats were unable to get into a position to attack the convoys due to the amount of anti-submarine warfare aircraft the group had to hand.

179 Squadron Vickers Wellington detachment left for RAF Predannack, in Cornwall, England, the following month, on 28 April 1944.

269 Squadron started to add Vickers Warwick to its inventory, a British multi-purpose twin-engined aircraft, capable of Maritime reconnaissance, air-sea rescue and transport.

220 Squadron start to receive and convert to Consolidated Liberator VI, an American heavy bomber used as a long-range general reconnaissance anti-submarine patrol aircraft by Coastal Command.