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No. 115 Squadron was a Royal Canadian Air Force Canadian Home War Establishment (HWE) Squadron. It flew anti-submarine patrols on the British Columbian and Alaskan coasts as part of Western Air Command. On 7 July 1942, F/Sgt. PMG Thomas and the crew of his Bollingbroke attacked the Japanese submarine Ro32 damaging it badly and they then directed U.S. Destroyers to the scene which sunk it. The squadron disbanded at Tofino, British Columbia in August 1944. ==Equipment== *Bristol Bolingbroke I (August - December 1941) *Bristol Bolingbroke IV (November 1941 - August 1943) *Lockheed Ventura GR.V (August 1943 - August 1944) Two letter Squadron code was BK from August 1939 - May 1942, UV until the use of squadron codes was discontinued in the RCAF HWE on 16 October 1942 "for security reasons".〔Kostenuk & Griffin, 1977, p. 233〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「No. 115 Squadron RCAF」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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