No. 1 Squadron RAAF
No. 1 Squadron RAAF | |
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Latin: "We Seek and We Strike") | |
Engagements | World War I World War II Malayan Emergency War against the Islamic State |
Battle honours[1][2] | Egypt 1915–1917 Palestine 1917–1918 Malaya 1948–1960 |
Commanders | |
Notable commanders[3][4] | Edgar Reynolds (1916) Richard Williams (1917–18) Harry Cobby (1925–26) Raymond Brownell (1926–28) Frank Lukis (1930, 1932–34) Frank Bladin (1934–35) Alan Charlesworth (1936–39) Allan Walters (1940–41) Errol McCormack (1978–79) Leo Davies (2002–03) |
Aircraft flown | |
Attack | F/A-18F Super Hornet |
No. 1 Squadron is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) squadron headquartered at RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland. It is controlled by No. 82 Wing, part of Air Combat Group, and is equipped with Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet multi-role fighters.
The squadron was formed under the
on the eve of World War II.Converting to
Role and equipment
No. 1 Squadron is located at
The squadron operates
History
World War I
No. 1 Squadron was established as a unit of the
On 12 September 1916, the British began to refer to No. 1 Squadron as No. 67 (Australian) Squadron RFC. This practice continued until January 1918, when the unit officially became known as No. 1 Squadron AFC.[16][20] The relationship between airmen and ground crew was less formal than in British units; squadron members recalled that "The CO is the only one who is ever called 'sir'" and that officers did not demand "saluting and standing to attention and all that rot".[26] The unit received the first of several Martinsyde G.100 single-seat fighters to augment the B.E.2s on 16 October; although considered obsolete, the "Tinsyde" was substantially faster than the B.E.2, and armed with forward-firing machine guns.[16][27] Shortly before the squadron took part in a bombing raid against Beersheba on 11 November, Lieutenant Lawrence Wackett managed to fix a machine gun to the top plane of one of the B.E.2s, using a mount he designed himself.[28] Each flight was also assigned a Bristol Scout beginning in December, but it too was obsolete and under-powered, and the squadron ceased operating the type within three months.[16][29] Other older models issued to the unit included the Airco DH.6, Martinsyde G.102 and Nieuport 17.[16] On 17 December, the squadron's flights were finally brought together at one base, Mustabig in Sinai.[21][30]
March 1917 saw the heaviest bombing campaign carried out by the squadron to date; short of its regular 20-pound (9.1 kg) ordnance, the pilots improvised by dropping 6-inch (150 mm)
No. 1 Squadron joined the
Beginning in August 1918, members of No. 1 Squadron, including one of its
Inter-war years
No. 1 Squadron returned to Australia on 5 March 1919, and was disbanded.[20] In 1921, the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) was established as a separate branch of the military, and on 1 January 1922, the squadron was re-formed on paper.[20][55] Its planned strength, approved by the Air Board in December 1921, was three officers and five airmen, operating four Airco DH.9s. Funding problems for the fledgling Air Force resulted in the disbandment on 1 July of No. 1 Squadron and other units established at the same time, their aircraft and personnel instead forming a single squadron of six flights under the control of No. 1 Flying Training School (No. 1 FTS) at Point Cook.[56] No. 1 Squadron was reactivated as an operational unit of the RAAF reserve, known as the Citizen Air Force (CAF), at Point Cook on 1 July 1925.[57] Its commanding officer was Flight Lieutenant Harry Cobby.[3]
Like No. 3 Squadron, formed the same day at Point Cook but transferred to RAAF Richmond, New South Wales, three weeks later, No. 1 Squadron was a multi-purpose or "composite" unit made up of three flights, each of which had a different role and comprised four aircraft: A Flight operated DH.9s for army cooperation, B Flight operated Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 fighters, and C Flight operated DH.9A bombers.[58] A third of the squadron's complement of 27 officers and 169 airmen was Permanent Air Force (PAF), and the rest CAF.[57][59] No. 1 Squadron relocated from Point Cook to nearby RAAF Laverton on 1 January 1928.[60] The RAAF retired its S.E.5s the same year, and in 1929 took delivery of Westland Wapiti general-purpose aircraft to replace its DH.9s and DH.9As.[61] Through the inter-war years, No. 1 Squadron undertook a range of tasks including civil aid, flood and bushfire relief, search and rescue, aerial surveys, and air show demonstrations.[62][63] In October 1930, a de Havilland DH.60 Moth attached to the unit conducted Australia's first crop-dusting operation, at the behest of the Victorian Forestry Commission.[64]
RAAF squadrons began adopting specialised roles in the early 1930s, No. 1 Squadron becoming No. 1 Single-Engined Bomber Squadron.
No. 1 Squadron began receiving new Demons in November 1936.[72] In January 1937, it relinquished its Bulldogs to No. 21 Squadron, which was to hold them until they could be transferred to the soon-to-be-formed No. 2 Squadron.[73] By the end of February, No. 1 Squadron's strength was 12 Demons and one Moth, 11 officers and 108 airmen.[74] The unit was redesignated No. 1 (Bomber) Squadron in August 1937.[67] Towards the end of the year, it was plagued by several Demon accidents, resulting in a series of inquiries and a review of RAAF procedures in 1938 by Marshal of the RAF Sir Edward Ellington; the so-called Ellington Report and its criticism of air safety standards led to the removal of Air Vice-Marshal Richard Williams from his position as Chief of the Air Staff, which he had held since the formation of the Air Force.[75] No. 1 Squadron received the RAAF's first three CAC Wirraways on 10 July 1939.[76] As the likelihood of war increased, the squadron's role was altered to incorporate reconnaissance as well as bombing, resulting in the transfer out of all Demons and Wirraways and the transfer in from other units of nine Avro Ansons on 28–29 August 1939; at the end of the month its personnel comprised nine officers and 122 airmen.[77]
World War II
Following the
By Christmas Eve 1941, No. 1 Squadron had five serviceable aircraft. Together with No. 8 Squadron RAAF, also equipped with Hudsons, it was tasked with maritime patrols to the east of Singapore.[90] On 26 January 1942, two of the squadron's Hudsons spotted a Japanese convoy heading for Endau, on the east coast of Malaya. It was decided to attack the convoy with all possible strength, including four Hudsons from No. 1 Squadron and five from No. 8 Squadron, together with obsolete Vickers Vildebeest and Fairey Albacore biplanes of Nos. 36 and 100 Squadrons RAF, and with what little fighter escort could be found. The convoy was strongly defended by Japanese fighters, and although all nine Hudsons returned to Singapore, several were badly shot up. The rest of the strike force did not fare as well; 11 Vildebeests, two Albacores, two Hudsons (of No. 62 Squadron RAF) and three fighters were lost.[91][92] By the end of the month, No. 1 Squadron had withdrawn to airfield P.2 on Sumatra, along with several other Commonwealth units including No. 8 Squadron. It continued to attack Japanese bases in Malaya and convoys in the Dutch East Indies, relocating to Semplak, Java, in mid-February. At Semplak it took over the Hudsons of No. 8 Squadron and No. 62 Squadron RAF, giving it a strength of 25 aircraft; at one stage it was to be renumbered as an RAF squadron, but this never occurred.[93] Heavily outnumbered by Japanese air units, which raided Allied bases with impunity, No. 1 Squadron suffered heavy losses and was ordered to withdraw its four remaining Hudsons to Australia on 2 March 1942, disbanding soon after. Although 120 of the squadron's personnel were evacuated from Java, 160 men including the commanding officer, Wing Commander Davis, were unable to escape and were taken prisoner by the Japanese; less than half survived captivity.[78][94]
No. 1 Squadron was re-formed with
Malayan Emergency
No. 1 Squadron was re-formed as a heavy bomber unit on 23 February 1948, when
The squadron carried out its own day-to-day maintenance in Malaya; the Lincolns were rotated back to Australia for major work.
Although the original purpose of the bombing campaign in Malaya was to kill as many insurgents as possible, the impracticality of achieving this in operations over dense jungle resulted in a shift towards harassing and demoralising the communists, driving them out of their bases and into areas held by Commonwealth ground troops.
Jet era
No. 1 Squadron re-equipped with Canberra Mk.20s after returning to Australia.[78] The RAAF's first jet bomber, the Canberra was subsonic but had long range and was highly manoeuvrable. It had been procured partly for its capacity to deliver nuclear weapons, an ordnance option the government seriously contemplated but never acquired. Initially the Canberra's envisaged mission profile was medium-to-high-altitude area bombing but its primitive bombsight and light load made this a dubious proposition, and by mid-1961 crews were training in low-level army cooperation tactics.[115][116] No. 1 Squadron was awarded successive Gloucester Cups for its proficiency in 1959–60 and 1960–61.[117] As of January 1962, its strength was eight aircraft and 53 personnel, including 18 officers.[118] The unit effectively ceased operations in 1968, to begin converting to the General Dynamics F-111C supersonic bomber, which was expected to enter service soon afterwards.[119] Already controversial owing to its escalating cost, the F-111 program was heavily delayed by airworthiness concerns related to its swing-wing technology.[120] In September 1970, as an interim measure while awaiting delivery of the F-111, No. 1 Squadron relinquished its Canberras for leased McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantoms.[121][122] Although the Phantom had a multi-role capability, the RAAF employed it as a strike aircraft to maintain compatibility with the proposed F-111 mission profile.[123] One of No. 1 Squadron's Phantoms was lost with its crew of two in June 1971, the only fatalities and hull loss of the 24 aircraft leased to the RAAF.[124] Though not as sophisticated an aircraft as the F-111, the Phantom was a significant advance over the Canberra, and well regarded by its Australian crews.[125]
No. 82 Wing accepted its first F-111Cs in June 1973.[126] The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Charles Read, ordered that the new aircraft be flown with great caution initially, well within operational limits, to minimise the possibility of further damage to its reputation through early attrition.[127] No. 1 Squadron was assigned 12 of the initial 24 aircraft delivered. It was No. 82 Wing's lead strike force, No. 6 Squadron's primary task being crew conversion training.[128][129] The wing employed a centralised servicing regime, whereby all aircraft and maintenance personnel were held by No. 482 Squadron, which released the F-111s in line with Nos. 1 and 6 Squadrons' joint flying program.[130] In February 1981, responsibility for operating-level servicing of the F-111s was transferred to the flying squadrons, which for the first time took direct control of their F-111s.[131][132] No. 482 Squadron continued to provide intermediate-level servicing; major upgrades and complex maintenance were carried out by No. 3 Aircraft Depot.[128][133] These two organisations merged in 1992 to form No. 501 Wing, which handed over heavy maintenance of the F-111 to Boeing Australia in 2001.[134] Between 1977 and 1993, the RAAF lost seven F-111Cs in crashes.[135] Three of the accidents involved aircraft flown by No. 1 Squadron: in August 1979, January 1986 and September 1993, the last two killing both crew members.[136][137][138] In July 1996, No. 1 Squadron took responsibility for aerial reconnaissance using specially modified RF-111Cs previously operated by No. 6 Squadron.[139] This gave No. 1 Squadron five mission types: land strike, maritime strike, close air support, long-range air defence, and reconnaissance.[140] In May 1999 the unit was again awarded the Gloucester Cup for proficiency.[141]
Along with its revolutionary variable-sweep wings, the F-111 was equipped with
In 2007, the Australian government decided to retire the F-111s by 2010, and acquire 24
In April 2014, the government purchased 58 F-35s in addition to 14 already ordered, for the express purpose of replacing the 71 "classic" Hornets of Nos. 3, 75 and
No. 1 Squadron commemorated its centenary in 2016 with several events including, on 8 June, a flight over Amberley by Super Hornets in concert with a vintage Bristol Fighter.[164] On 23 November, the 12 Super Hornets operated by No. 6 Squadron were transferred to No. 1 Squadron in preparation for the former unit converting to an electronic warfare role with the Boeing EA-18G Growler in 2017.[165] At the same time, a training flight was established within No. 1 Squadron to deliver refresher training on the Super Hornet.[166] A detachment of No. 1 Squadron was again deployed to Al Minhad as part of the Australian Air Task Group in May 2017, replacing the legacy Hornets of No. 77 Squadron.[167] The Super Hornets flew the last strike mission of their rotation, and the last of 2,700 sorties by the Air Task Group Hornets, on 14 January 2018.[168] In April, No. 1 Squadron was awarded the 2017 Gloucester Cup.[169] The squadron's training flight and six Super Hornets were transferred to the newly established No. 82 Wing Training Flight in June 2020.[166]
Aircraft operated
- Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2/B.E.12 (1916–1918)
- Martinsyde G.100/G.102 (1916–1918)
- Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8 (1917–1918)
- Bristol F.2 Fighter (1917–1919)
- Handley Page O/400(1918)
- Airco DH.9/DH.9A (1925–1929)
- Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 (1925–1928)
- Westland Wapiti (1929–1936)
- Hawker Demon(1935–1939)
- Bristol Bulldog (1935–1937)
- Avro Anson (1939–1940)
- Lockheed Hudson (1940–1942)
- Bristol Beaufort (1943–1945)
- De Havilland Mosquito (1945–1946)
- Avro Lincoln (1948–1958)
- English Electric Canberra (1958–1970)
- McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II (1970–1973)
- General Dynamics F-111C (1973–2009)
- Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet(2010–current)
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Further reading
- James, Martin (2017). "The Experience of No.1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps: A Flight into the Unknown". Sabretache. 58 (4). Garran, Australian Capital Territory: Military Historical Society of Australia: 4–25. ISSN 0048-8933.
External links
- "No. 1 Squadron". RAAF Museum. Archived from the original on 14 November 2012.