No. 76 Operational Training Unit RAF

76 Operational Training Unit RAF (76 OTU) was a Royal Air Force operational training unit during the Second World War.

[1] The unit was formed at RAF Aqir on 1 October 1943.

Throughout its existence it was equipped with Vickers Wellington bombers - Mk.

Xs[citation needed]) and trained crews for night bombing operations with RAF squadrons in the Middle East.

The bomber pilot Cyril Spurdens flew with the unit.

A Vickers Wellington of No. 76 Operational Training Unit taxies out for a training flight at Aqir, Palestine. ©IWM CM 5756