No. 2 Squadron RAAF
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<tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Service</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">RAAF</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">FEG</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Surveillance & Response Group</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Parent Unit</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">42 Wing</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Role</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">AEW&C</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Motto</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Consilio et manu</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Formed</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">1916</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Base</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">RAAF Base Williamtown</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Aircraft</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Boeing Wedgetail</td></tr> |
No. 2 Squadron is a Royal Australian Air Force squadron. The Squadron was first formed in 1916 at Heliopolis, Egypt<ref>2 Squadron - Australian Flying Corps of World War I. Retrieved on [[August 1, 2006]].</ref> and is currently being re-formed to operate Boeing Wedgetail aircraft from RAAF Base Williamtown and RAAF Base Tindal.
The Squadron heavily involved (as a fighter squadron) during the Battle of Cambrai in the First World War and as a bomber squadron in the Second World War and Vietnam War.
In the later years of the Canberra bomber's RAAF operations it was predominately used for target towing and aerial mapping.
2 Squadron operated the Canberra aircraft at RAAF Amberley (west of Brisbane, Qld) until 1982.
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