32SQN

ACO, AvWO and lead-in pilot training

Seventy years ago next February, in the stifling heat of a Papuan New Guiniean airfield, the RAAF’s 32 Squadron was formed. Drawn from flights from 6, 23 and 24 Squadrons, the unit was immediately in action, commencing anti submarine patrols on the very day it was stood up.

Flying Hudsons and Beauforts, it went on to compile a commendable list of battle honours in Milne Bay, Kokoda and Queensland. Then in November 1945, with as little ceremony as marked its establishment, the squadron disbanded.