num_pages: 534
description: In the seven decades since the Second World War 14 Squadron has operated a wide array of aircraft types (Mosquitoes Vampires Venoms Hunters Canberras Phantoms Jaguars and Tornados) in a fascinating variety of roles. For much of this time the Squadron was based in Germany at the front line of the Cold War but it also participated in the Gulf War in 1991 in operations over Iraq from 1991-2009 in the Kosovo conflict in 2000 and latterly during the war in Afghanistan firstly with the Tornado GR4 and then with the Shadow R1. Today the Squadron operates in great secrecy in an Intelligence Surveillance Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance role.Having had access to log-books contemporary diaries maps and photographs as well as oral and written accounts from a large number of ex-Squadron members the author has been able to produce as complete an account as is presently possible of the operational history of 14 Squadron in the second half of the twentieth century and the opening years of the twenty-first.
language: English
title: Blue Diamonds: The Exploits of 14 Squadron RAF, 1945–2015
publisher: Pen & Sword Aviation