No. 62 Squadron RAF

During the Second World War the Squadron was deployed to the Far East, operating the Bristol Blenheim from Singapore and Malaya.

[2] The unit received Bristol F2B fighter aircraft in May 1917 and was deployed to France in January 1918 with operations commencing from the aerodrome at Serny in early 1918.

[3] Nicknamed "The Cheery 62s," the unit had its first encounter with Manfred von Richthofen's Circus on 12 March 1918, resulting in at least two aviators killed, four captured, and one wounded.

[5] Ten aces served in the unit, including future Air Vice-Marshal William Ernest Staton as well as George Everard Gibbons, Thomas L. Purdom, Geoffrey Forrest Hughes, Thomas Elliott, Charles Arnison, Ernest Morrow, William Norman Holmes, Hugh Claye and Douglas Savage.

While that squadron was credited with 147 enemy aircraft destroyed, it only had two aviators killed, five wounded, and ten reported missing.

[7] The squadron was posted to Singapore in August 1939 and moved to Alor Star in northern Malaya in February 1940.

His Blenheim was heavily damaged by Japanese fighters and anti-aircraft fire, badly injuring Scarf.

Despite his injuries, he managed to make a forced landing at Alor Star, saving the rest of his crew.

[10][11] Butterworth was heavily damaged by the Japanese attack on 9 December, and the squadron moved again, this time to Taiping, Perak.

[20] On 18 August, one of the squadron's Hudsons drove off a Japanese flying boat attacking the merchant ship SS Itinda.

[20] It was heavily deployed in dropping supplies during the Battle of Imphal, continuing to fly through the heavy rains of the Monsoon season.

[25] From 1 February 1960 to 31 January 1963, the squadron was based at Woolfox Lodge as a Bristol Bloodhound equipped missile unit,[4] part of No.