No. 65 Squadron RAF

7 Training Wing until equipping with Sopwith Camels and transferring to France as an operational fighter squadron in October 1917.

Thirteen aces had served with it, including : John Inglis Gilmour, Joseph White, Maurice Newnham, Thomas Williams, William Harry Bland, Alfred Leitch, Jack Armand Cunningham, Godfrey Brembridge, and George M.

[8] During World War II, the squadron operated Supermarine Spitfires, having converted from Gladiators in 1939.

[9] In 1946, the unit converted to the Spitfire LF.XVIe and then the de Havilland Hornet, the Gloster Meteor F.4 and F.8, then the Hawker Hunter F.6 (December 1956) at RAF Duxford from August 1952 until the squadron disbanded on 31 March 1961, and then reformed in 1964 as a surface-to-air missile unit, operating the Bristol Bloodhound.

56 (Reserve) Squadron, after serving as the Operational conversion unit for the Panavia Tornado F.2 and F.3 interceptor, with the alternative identity of No.

Pilots line up for a haircut while waiting on standby near the No. 122 Wing Operations Room at Martragny , Normandy. In the chair is Flying Officer J. M. W. Lloyd of No. 65 Squadron RAF.