211 Squadron RAF
No.211 Squadron formed on 1 April 1918 from No.11 Squadron RNAS at Petite Synthe and flew Airco D.H.9s on bombing raids by day over Flanders. It also flew reconnaissance sorties. It was disbanded at Wyton on 24 June 1919 after returning there in March 1919.
No. 211 reformed as a day bomber squadron at Mildenhall on 24 June 1937 with Hawker Audaxes, then Hawker Hinds which it took to Egypt. Here it re-equipped with Bristol Blenheim Mk Is, with which it bombed in the Western Desert and Greece in 1940-1. Then it fought in Syria before moving in June 1941 to the Sudan where it disbanded into No. 72 OTU in October 1941.
It was reformed at Heliopolis the following month and took its Blenheim Mk IVs to Java for the end of the Singapore campaign in which it was destroyed, disbanding at Kalidjati on 19 February 1942.
The squadron was reformed at Phaphamau in India on 14 August 1943 and fought on the Burma front with Bristol Beaufighters from the beginning of 1944. It re-equipped with de Havilland Mosquito FB.Mk Vis in June 1945 in India, and did not fight again, moving to Thailand in September 1945 and disbanding at Don Muang airport on 15 March 1946.
