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History<\/strong>:<\/strong> Formed at Bramcote on 26 July 1940 as a light bomber squadron equipped with Battles before converting to Wellingtons in October 1940 which it operated until disbanding on 7 April 1943, its personnel transferring to No 300 Squadron. On 7 November 1944, the squadron reformed at Brindisi from No 1586 (Special Duties) Flight equipped with Halifaxes and Liberators flying supply-dropping missions in support of partisans in Poland, Yugoslavia and Northern Italy. Returning to the UK in March 1945 the unit became a transport squadron operating Warwicks and Halifaxes until it disbanded at Chedburgh on 10 December 1946.<\/p>\n Dedication<\/strong>: Polish:Ufundowana przez Stowarzyszenie Lotnikow Polskich i Ivan Nigel Moore, odznaka poswiecona wszystkim zolnierzom, ktorzy sluzyli w 301 Dywizjonie Polskich Sil Powietrznych. <\/em>Sponsored by the Polish Air Force Association and Ivon Nigel Moore: dedicated to all who served with No 301 Squadron.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" History: Formed at Bramcote on 26 July 1940 as a light bomber squadron equipped with Battles before converting to Wellingtons in October 1940 which it operated until disbanding on 7 April 1943, its personnel transferring to No 300 Squadron. On 7 November 1944, the squadron reformed at Brindisi from No 1586 (Special Duties) Flight equipped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7113,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7111\/revisions\/7113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}