sunderland flying boat sqaudrons

What I meant is, that if you have both books, you get a good overview of Sunderland operations and history. I agree that a complete history of the Sunderland needs to be written, preferrably by someone who has a better command of the English language than I have;) 😀

Originally posted by galdri

Short Sunderland in World War II, by Andrew Hendrie, published by Airlife Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1 84037 037 8

Used this one as part of my research above – but I wouldn’t have said complete history by itself! Very little about some of the units which used the Sunderland briefly – even if they were successful sub-killers – and nothing about the Free French.
I feel the definitive history of theSunderland has still to be written…

Flood.

Squadrons using RAF Sunderland (so as to differentiate from foreign squadrons using Sunderlands in their own national markings, such as 5 Sqn RNZAF, 40 Sqn RAAF, or 35 SAAF) –

10 RAAF – 9/39-6/45
88 – 9/46-10/54
95 – 1/41-6/45
119 – 9/42-4/43
201 – 4/40-2/57
202 – 12/41-9/42
204 – 6/39-6/45
205 – 6/45-5/59
209 – 2/45-12/54
210 – 6/38-4/41
228 – 11/38-6/45
230 – 6/38-2/57
240 – 7/45-3/46
246 – 10/42-4/43
259 – 3/45-4/45
270 – 12/43-6/45
330 Norge – 3/43-11/45
343 FFAF – 11/43-11/45
422 RCAF – 7/42-11/42
423 RCAF – 7/42-5/45
461 RAAF – 4/42-6/45
490 RNZAF – 5/44-8/45

Hope this helps.

Flood.

Hi,

Look at the Coastal Command section of

http://www.rafcommands.com

Regards
Ross

No problem really;)

Two good books on the Sunderland out there, which give a very complete history of the aircraft and the units flying it. They are:

Short Sunderland in World War II, by Andrew Hendrie, published by Airlife Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1 84037 037 8

And

Sunderland Suadrons of World War 2 (part of the Osprey Combat aircraft series), by Jon Lake, published by Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1 84176 024 2

Hope this helps.