Volume 4: Operational Flying Squadrons
415 Maritime Patrol Squadron
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BADGE
Description
Argent a swordfish proper variant.
Significance
The swordfish and motto indicate the squadron's former operational duties in attacking enemy shipping.
MOTTO
AD METAM (To the mark)
BATTLE HONOURS
The Second World War
ATLANTIC, 1942; ENGLISH CHANNEL AND NORTH SEA, 1942-1944; FRANCE AND GERMANY, 1944-1945; Biscay Ports, 1944; Ruhr, 1944-1945; German Ports, 1944-1945; Normandy, 1944; Rhine; BISCAY, 1942-1943.
LINEAGE
Authorized as '415 (Torpedo Bomber) Squadron' 20 August 1941.1
Redesignated '415 (Bomber) Squadron' 12 July 1944.2
Disbanded 15 May 1945.3
Reformed as '415 Maritime Patrol Squadron' 1 May 1961.4
OPERATIONAL HISTORY
The Second World War
The squadron flew on anti-shipping operations over the British and Dutch coasts under 'Coastal Command' and, later, on bombing operations in Great Britain under 'Bomber Command'.5
SQUADRON STANDARD
1. AFRO 1296/45, Appendix “B”; Loose minute/Note d'accompagnement 94/D of O, 9 August 1941, no file number/aucun numéro de dossier, Kardex 181.006 (D295)
2. Memorandum//Note de service, Transfer of No. 415 (RCAF) Squadron from Coastal Command to Bomber Command and Re-Equipment with Halifax Mark III Aircraft, 15 July 1944, file/dossier BC/S.31578/Org, Kardex 181.009 (D6822)
3. Information Memorandum No 115, 17 May 1945, file/dossier S.2-3-415 (DAS), Kardex 181.006 (D295)
4. File S.895-100-9/415, 1 June 1961, NAC/AN, RG/GE 24, Accn 83-84/216, vol 3097
5. CFOO/OOFC 2.2.5, 9 September/septembre 1977, file/dossier 1901-2561 (DMCO)
6. Memorandum/Note de service, No. 902/44, Transfer of No. 415 (RCAF) Squadron from Coastal Command to Bomber Command, 14 April 1944, file/dossier S.D. 155/1944 (902-903), Kardex 181.006 (D295); Information Memorandum No 82, 15 July 1944, file/dossier S.2-3-415 (DAS), Kardex 181.006 (D295); Information Memorandum No 82, 15 July 1944, file/dossier S.2-3-415 (DAS), Kardex 181.006 (D295); “No.415 Squadron”, PRF/DRP R S7 415
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