No. 297 Squadron

Command
Airborne Forces / Glider

History

No. 297 Squadron was an airborne-forces squadron of the RAF, flying Armstrong Whitworth Whitleys and later Halifaxes and Albemarles. It dropped paratroops and towed Horsa and Hamilcar gliders on the great airborne operations of 1944–45 — the Normandy landings, Arnhem and the Rhine crossing — and also flew supply missions to the resistance in occupied Europe.

Photographs

Royal Air Force Army Co-operation Command, 1940-1943. Paratroops marching to emplane on [Armstrong Whitworth Whitley](/aircraft/7/) Mark Vs [No. 297 Squadron](/squadrons/384/) RAF, at [Ringway](/airfields/6315/), Cheshire, during a Combined Operations exercise.
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