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No. 129 Squadron RAF

squadron of the Royal Air Force

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ7042901 ↗
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No. 129 (Mysore) Squadron was a Royal Air Force squadron active in World War II.

World War I

Like a number of others, No. 129 was first created in the latter months of the First World War as a day bomber unit based at RAF Duxford. It never became operational due to the Armistice.

World War II

No. 129 Squadron was reformed on 16 June 1941 at RAF Leconfield equipped with Spitfires.

As a result of the Indian government raising large sums of money through its sale of War Bonds a number of squadrons within the RAF were given names of Indian cities and provinces in recognition of this. No. 129 became No. 129 (Mysore) Squadron being named after Mysore province in southwest India.

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“No. 129 Squadron RAF” enters the record as squadron of the Royal Air Force. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Squadron, squadron and Royal can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “No. 129 Squadron 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.