No. 153 Squadron was a Royal Air Force squadron that saw service in both the First and Second World Wars.

On 24th October of 1941 No 153 was formed at Ballyhalbert in Northern Ireland from a flight from No 256 Squadron. It flew Defiants on night patrols until it received Beaufighters in May 1942. In December 1942 it flew to Algeria where it undertook night patrols and convoy protection over the western Mediterranean.

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2017年10月15日 · During the second World War, Royal Air Force Bomber Command eventually comprised of seven groups in the United Kingdom, strategically stationed near the east coast of England. On its creation as a bomber squadron, 153 Squadron became the 13th squadron in No 1 Group. The Squadron's official code-letter appearing on all aircraft was P4.

On its creation as a bomber squadron, No 153 became the 13th Squadron in No 1 Group. It was the ‘new boy’ for a very short time because a week later saw the re-formation of No 170 Squadron (eventually based at Hemswell) which brought No 1 Group fully up to strength.

The 153rd Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (153 RAC, sometimes known as 153 (Essex) Regt RAC) was an armoured regiment of the Royal Armoured Corps, part of the British Army, and was raised during the Second World War. The regiment saw brief but intense action in the invasion of Normandy before being broken up to provide replacements to other units.

The squadron, having operated both from Northern Ireland and North Africa, wished to commemorate the fact by including in its badge a white star-which appears in the arms of Northern Ireland and a bat. The bat is indigenous to North Africa and is also a nocturnal predatory animal which is intended to symbolise the unit's night-fighting activities.

No.153 Squadron had two incarnations during the Second World War, first as a night fighter squadron which served both at home and in the Mediterranean, and then as a Lancaster squadron in Bomber Command.

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For the purpose of this website, 153 Squadron is included as one of the RAF Squadrons to which Australians were posted during WW II. The Empire Air Training Scheme supplied tens of thousands of aircrew for the Royal Air Force (RAF) air war in Europe during WW II.