No. 21 Squadron was a
squadron
Squadron may refer to:
* Squadron (army), a military unit of cavalry, tanks, or equivalent subdivided into troops or tank companies
* Squadron (aviation), a military unit that consists of three or four flights with a total of 12 to 24 aircraft, ...
of the
Royal New Zealand Air Force. Formed in May 1944, it was equipped with
F4U-1 Corsair fighter bombers
A fighter-bomber is a fighter aircraft that has been modified, or used primarily, as a light bomber or attack aircraft. It differs from bomber and attack aircraft primarily in its origins, as a fighter that has been adapted into other roles, wh ...
.
History
21 Squadron was deployed to
Kukum Field
Kukum Field also known as Fighter 2 Airfield is a former World War II airfield on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.
World War II
From the beginning of the Guadalcanal Campaign it was planned that the area would be developed into a major air base. I ...
on
Guadalcanal from June–July 1944, to
Piva Airfield on
Bougainville from July–September 1944 and then returned to Guadalcanal from November–December 1944.
[Ross 1955, p. 328] 21 Squadron deployed to
Green Island from April–May 1945 and then to
Jacquinot Bay
Jacquinot Bay is a bay in East New Britain Province, south-eastern New Britain, Papua New Guinea, at . It is near the mountain where twenty-eight people died when a Royal Australian Air Force plane crashed in November 1945. To its west is the Gas ...
from May–July 1945. The squadron was disbanded in September 1945.
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Commanding officers
*Squadron Leader L. R. Bush May (1944–February 1945);
*Squadron Leader W. J. MacLeod (March–September 1945).[
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Notes
References
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21
Squadrons of the RNZAF in World War II
Military units and formations established in 1944
Military units and formations disestablished in 1945
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