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Appendix 18: Equipment and Location of Squadrons available in Nos. 16 and 18 Groups, Coastal Command, for Anti-invasion Duties, 26th September 1940

Squadron Equipment War Station
NO. 18 GROUP, DONIBRISTLE (ROSYTH) (Air Vice-Marshal C. D. Breese)
201 Sunderland Sullom Voe
204 Sunderland Sullom Voe
248 Blenheim Sumburgh
254 Blenheim Dyce
21 1 Blenheim Lossiemouth
57 1 Blenheim Lossiemouth
220 Hudson Thornaby
224 2 Hudson Leuchars
233 2 Hudson Leuchars
269 Hudson and Anson Wick
42 3 Beaufort Wick
700 4 Walrus Sullom Voe
NO. 16 GROUP, CHATHAM (Air Vice-Marshal T. H. S. Thyssen)
235 Blenheim Bircham Newton
53 5 Blenheim Detling
59 5 Blenheim Thorney Island
206 Hudson Bircham Newton
500 (Auxiliary) Anson Detling
22 Beaufort North Coates
812 1 Swordfish Thornaby
826 4 Albacore Bircham Newton

NOTES

1 Lent by Bomber Command.

2 Elements detached to Aldergrove, leaving about the equivalent of one squadron at Leuchars.

3 Not operational until end of September.

4 Naval squadrons.

5 Former Army Co-Operation squadrons.