No. 134 Squadron RAF

No. 134 Squadron RAF
Active	1 March 1918 – 4 July 1918 31 July 1941 – 10 March 1946
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Royal Air Force
Motto(s)	Latin: Per ardua volabimus ("We shall fly through hardships")[1]
Insignia
Squadron Badge	A gauntlet closed.
Squadron Codes	G (August–November 1941) GQ (1942 – June 1945)

No. 134 Squadron RAF was a part of the Royal Air Force which was formed as a light bomber unit in World War I and reformed as a fighter squadron in World War II.

History

First World War

No. 134 Squadron Royal Flying Corps was formed on 1 March 1918 and became a unit of the Royal Air Force a month later but disbanded on 17 August 1918.

Second World War

The squadron reformed from a nucleus provided by 17 Squadron in July 1941 as a fighter unit equipped with Hawker Hurricanes stationed at RAF Leconfield. It was then based near Murmansk to train Russian pilots until the Hurricanes were handed over to the Russian Navy. Back in the UK the squadron was re-assembled at RAF Catterick on 7 December 1941, moved to Northern Ireland for two months and returned to RAF Baginton (in Warwickshire) to prepare to move overseas once again. It then operated in Egypt until November 1943 when it moved to India and Burma. The squadron converted to the P-47 Thunderbolt and disbanded by being renumbered 131 Squadron.

Aircraft operated

Aircraft operated by No. 134 Squadron RAF^[2]

From	To	Aircraft	Variant
Jun 1941	Mar 1942	Hawker Hurricane	IIB
Dec 1941	Feb 1942	Supermarine Spitfire	VA
Dec 1941	Feb 1942	Supermarine Spitfire	IIA
Jan 1942	Feb 1942	Hawker Hurricane	IIB
Jan 1942	Mar 1943	Supermarine Spitfire	VB
Jan 1943	Oct 1943	Hawker Hurricane	IIB
Mar 1943	Apr 1943	Hawker Hurricane	IIC
Jun 1943	Aug 1943	Supermarine Spitfire	VB & VC
Sep 1944	Jan 1945	Republic P-47 Thunderbolt	I
Sep 1944	Jan 1945	Republic P-47 Thunderbolt	II

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Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)	400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443
Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)	450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 466 467
Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF)	485 486 487 488 489 490

Squadrons formed from
non-Commonwealth personnel
during the Second World War

Argentine 164 Belgian 349 350 Czechoslovak 310 311 312 313 Dutch 320 (Netherlands) 321 (Netherlands) 322 (Dutch) French 326 327 328 329 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 Greek 13 335 336 Norwegian 330 331 332 333 334 Polish 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 315 316 317 318 663 United States 71 121 133 Yugoslav 351 352

Royal Auxiliary Air Force

Special Reserve	500 501 502 503 504
Auxiliary Air Force	600 601 602 603 604 605 606 607 608 609 610 611 612 613 614 615 616 622

Fleet Air Arm of the RAF
(1924–1939)