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No. 39 Wing RCAF No. 39 (Reconnaissance) Wing RCAF No. 39 (Army Co-operation) Wing RCAF
Active	September 1942 – August 1945
Country	Canada
Branch	Royal Air Force / Royal Canadian Air Force
Type	Wing
Role	Reconnaissance
Part of	First Canadian Army RAF Second Tactical Air Force

Military unit

No. 39 Wing RCAF was a unit of the Royal Canadian Air Force which served with the Royal Air Force in Europe during the Second World War.

History

No. 39 Wing was established on 12 September 1942 as an "Army Cooperation" Wing at Leatherhead, Surrey, England. It comprised No. 400 Squadron RCAF, No. 414 Squadron RCAF, and No. 430 Squadron RCAF. As a reconnaissance unit, its purpose was to gather photographic intelligence in support of allied ground operations.

The Wing left the UK and moved to the European continent on 2 July 1944 at Sommervieu, France. The Wing moved ever eastward following the front and finished the war at airfield B156 Luneburg, Germany where it was finally disbanded.

Aircraft

Curtiss Tomahawk I (1942–1943)
North American Mustang I (1942–1945)
Supermarine Spitfire LF IX (1944–1945)
de Havilland Mosquito PR XVI (1943–1945)

Commanding Officers

G/C D.M. Smith, 12 Sep 42 – 9 Feb 44
G/C E.H.G. Moncrieff AFC, 10 Feb 44 – 8 Feb 45
G/C G.H. Sellers, AFC, 9 Feb 45 – 15 May 45
G/C R.C.A. Waddell, DSO DFC, 16 May 45 – 7 Aug 45

References

Citations

^ Kostenuk, Samuel; Griffin, John (1977). RCAF Squadron Histories and Aircraft 1924–1968. Toronto: National Museum of Man Canada. p. 255. ISBN 0-88866-577-6.
"Air Force (Canada) History". Royal Canadian Air Force Association. Retrieved 26 May 2022.

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Wings: 1 Wing Kingston; 3 Wing Bagotville; 4 Wing Cold Lake; 5 Wing Goose Bay; 8 Wing Trenton; 9 Wing Gander; 12 Wing Shearwater; 14 Wing Greenwood; 15 Wing Moose Jaw; 16 Wing Borden; 17 Wing Winnipeg; 19 Wing Comox; 22 Wing North Bay
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Pre-WWII Squadrons	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 18
100-series squadrons	110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 145 147 149 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 170
WW2 400-series Article XV squadrons	400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443
WW2 600-series AOP squadrons	664 665 666
Post-war squadrons	103 444 445 446 447 448 449 450

Squadron
codes

WW2 Canada

1 August 1939 - May 1942	AY BK BT DM EX FD FY JY KA KO LT MX NA OP OY PB QN RE TM XE XO YO ZD
Unit formation in 1940 - May 1942	AN BF GK GV LU PO QE TQ RA
Dartmouth Hurricanes 1942	1 or 2 1 or 2 1 or 2
May 1942 - 16 October 1942	AE AF AG AN AZ BA BD BV DE DZ EA ED EN ET FG FN GA GR HA HJ JK KL LM LR LV LZ MA MK MR NO PQ QG RA RS SZ TF TN UV UY VD VW XP XY YA YH YZ ZM ZR

WW2 Overseas
1940-1946

Operational squadrons	AB AE AL AN AU AW BM BX 2I CI DB DG DH DN EE EQ 5V FD F3 6U GX G9 HU I8 9G KH KP KW LQ NA ND NH OW PT QB QL QO QY RA RR RU RV SE SP SW TH VR VZ WL YI YO YZ ZL ZU Z2
Transport squadrons	OWL ODM ODN ODO

Post-WW2
1947 - 1958

1947 - 1951 (VCXXA)	AA AB AC AD AG AH AK AM AN AO AP AQ AT AU AW AX BA BC BN BQ BU XV
1951 - 1958 (XXnnn)	AF AM AN AP AQ AS AX BA BB BH BQ BR BT BU BV DL FG GW HG HO IG JF JW KE KH LP MN NQ PF PR QP QT RX SA SP SV TF UD VN XK XV

Aircraft administered and serviced by the RCAF but manned by the Royal Canadian Artillery. Non-standard code as unit using OW added L. Letters normally denoted parent Command, aircraft type (L Liberator transport, D Dakota etc), unit, and individual aircraft.
VC

XXA where VC was the civil code used by the RCAF replacing CF-, XX was the unit code and A was the aircraft ID letter
XX

nnn where XX was the unit code and nnn was the last 3 digits of the serial number. Unit code was replaced with "RCAF" in 1958

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airfield headquarters	121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 (Polish) 132 (Norwegian) 133 (Polish) 134 (Czech) 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 (RCAF) 144 (RCAF) 145 (French) 146 147 148 149 150
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numbered wings	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 (ES) 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 (EL) 86 87 88 89 90 91 96 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 123 124 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 159 160 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 177 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 215 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 272 273 274 275 276 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 300 301 302 303 321 322 323 324 325 326 328 329 330 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 500 551 552 553 554 700 701 900 908 909 910

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