T The outbreak of the Second World War 4 Sqn was back on familiar territory, having served on the Western Front in France in the First World War, from August 1914 to the end of 1918. Although very few of the new generation of officers and airmen realised it, the unit had returned to the same skies to fight a completely different kind of war. Under the control of No 50 (Army Co-operation) Wing, part of the Air Component of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), the squadron left its home at Odiham, Hampshire, and arrived at Mons-en-Chaussee via Southampton and Cherbourg on September 24, 1939.
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