46 Group was Air Commodore Arthur Leonard ‘Fido’ Fiddament CB, CBE, DFC.

46 Group equipped with modified Hawker Hurricane, a single-seat fighter aircraft, to deliver secret mail and small equipment to the Normandy beachheads, had the honor to become the first aircraft to land in France after D-Day.

46 Group flew continually between England and France in the crucial role to deliver Freight and to evacuate wounded from the fighting in Normandy.

437 Squadron RCAF was formed and it flew in the next major airborne operation, Market Garden, since its first day, on 17 September 1944.

[1] It was on 19 September 1944 during Operation Market Garden that Flight Lieutenant David Lord VC, DFC, No.

[4] After extensive involvement in the Berlin Airlift, from June 1948 to September 1949, 46 Group disbanded on 15 October 1949 at Lüneburg Airfield (B 156), in West Germany.

[1] King George VI authorised the Group's badge in February 1951 with the motto Alios Alis Alo ("With my wings I nourish others").

"Early in 1972" RAF Brize Norton had come under the Group's control, at the time hosting Nos 10, 53, 99 and 511 Squadrons.