No. 195 Squadron

No. 195 Squadron, like several wartime units, served in two distinct guises. It first formed in November 1942 at RAF Duxford flying the Hawker Typhoon, carrying out low-level fighter and fighter-bomber sweeps over the Channel and occupied coast until it was disbanded early in 1944.

It reformed in October 1944 at RAF Witchford, largely from a flight of No. 115 Squadron, as a heavy-bomber unit in No. 3 Group equipped with the Avro Lancaster, and operated from RAF Wratting Common in Cambridgeshire. In the closing weeks of the war it turned to errands of mercy, dropping food to the starving Dutch and flying home released prisoners of war, before being disbanded in August 1945.