No. 15 Group

Coastal Command

No. 15 Group of Coastal Command controlled the Western Approaches from its headquarters at Liverpool, working closely with the Royal Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic. Its long-range patrol aircraft escorted convoys and hunted U-boats across the north-western approaches to the British Isles, the most critical waters of the anti-submarine war.

Squadrons (11)

SquadronNameHome station
No. 36 Squadron — RAF Benbecula Balivanich
No. 59 Squadron — RAF Ballykelly
No. 86 Squadron — RAF Ballykelly
No. 119 Squadron — RAF Bircham Newton
No. 120 Squadron — —
No. 201 Squadron Guernsey's Own RAF Castle Archdale/Lough Erne
No. 204 Squadron — RAF Mount Batten
No. 217 Squadron — RAF St Eval
No. 220 Squadron — RAF Benbecula Balivanich
No. 228 Squadron — RAF Pembroke Dock
No. 259 Squadron — RAF Pembroke Dock

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