No.23 SQN - T-shirt P-38 Lightning armed with Aden cannon and

armed with Aden cannon and Firestreak missiles

Hawker Sea Hawk

Many types were involved

becoming Imperial Airways

entering service with the USAF in 1947

No.23 SQN - T-shirt P-38 Lightning armed with Aden cannon and23 Squadron Formed by the Royal Flying Corps in 1915 at Gosport, it first operated the B. E. 2C as a night fighter to intercept Zeppelins. Towards the end of World War I the squadron converted to Sopwith Dolphins, but was disbanded in 1919. 1925 the squadron reformed at RAF Henlow with the Snipe, then the Gloster Gamecock. During the second world war it operated the Blenheim, Havoc then Mosquito with many battle honours. Post war types included the