High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! No. 295 Squadron RAF was an airbone forces and transport squadron of the Royal Air Force during World War II. It was the first unit to be equipped with the Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle transport and glider tug aircraft.No. 295 Squadron was formed on 3 August 1942 at RAF Netheravon as an airborne forces unit, equipped with Whitley Mk.Vs. These were from Novenber 1942 used in leaflet dropping mission over France, supplemented in February 1943 with Halifax Mk.Vs. By October 1943 the squadron converted to the Albemarle Mk.I. With these aircraft the squadron shared -with 570 sqn.- the honour of being the first to drop troops over Normandy on the eve of D-Day, while other aircraft of the squadron towed gliders to the landing zones.

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