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No. 178 Squadron (RAF)

For the purpose of his website, No. 178 Squadron (RAF)  is included as one of the RAF Squadrons to which Australians were posted during WW II.

The Empire Air Training Scheme supplied tens of thousands of aircrew for the Royal Air Force (RAF) air war in Europe, and later all other theatres of war in which the UK was engaged during WW II. While a number of so-called Article XV national squadrons were created in Fighter, Bomber and Coastal Commands of the RAF, the majority of Australian aircrew were posted, along with their Commonwealth colleagues, to RAF Squadrons as individual crew members,where they would 'crew up' often with a very multi-national aircrew comprised of men from all over the Commownwealth. Ground staff were similarly assigned. 

No. 178 Squadron was a heavy bomber unit operating in the Middle East and Italy. It variously operated Handley Page Halifax, B-24 Consolidated Liberator and Avro Lancaster aircraft.

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