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No. 143 Wing RAF

military unit

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ7042957 ↗
Source-derived summary

No. 143 Wing RAF was a unit of the Royal Air Force which served in Europe during the Second World War.

History

RAF Second Tactical Air Force was established on 1 June 1943. No. 143 Wing was established on 10 January 1944. It comprised No. 438 Squadron RCAF, No. 439 Squadron RCAF, and No. 440 Squadron RCAF. As a fighter-ground attack unit, its purpose was to support the Canadian and British troops of 21st Army Group.

On 5 June 1944 while at RAF Hurn as "No.

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“No. 143 Wing RAF” enters the record as military unit. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wing, military and unit can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “No. 143 Wing RAF” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.