page_title: No. 76 Squadron RAF
section_title: Halifaxes
hierarchical_section_title: No. 76 Squadron RAF / History / Second World War / Halifaxes
caption_attribution_description: English: IWM caption&#160;: Handley Page Halifax Mark I Series 1, L9530 'MP-L', of No 76 Squadron RAF undergoing maintenance at Middleton St George, County Durham. L9530 was shot down while attacking Magdeburg on 15 August 1941.
context_page_description: Number 76 Squadron was a squadron of the Royal Air Force. It was formed during World War I as a home defence fighter squadron and in its second incarnation during World War II flew as a bomber squadron, first as an operational training unit and later as an active bomber squadron. With the end of the war the squadron converted to the role of transport squadron, to be reactivated shortly in the bomber role during the 1950s. From 2007 to 2011, it was a training unit, equipped with the Short Tucano at RAF Linton-on-Ouse.
context_section_description: The squadron reformed shortly on 30 April 1940 at RAF West Raynham as a Hampden unit before being disbanded on 2 May 1940. On 1 May 1941, the squadron reformed properly at RAF Linton-on-Ouse as the second Handley Page Halifax bomber squadron, part of the newly created No. 4 Group, RAF Bomber Command. The Squadron moved to RAF Middleton St. George in June 1941, returning to Linton-on-Ouse in July 1942. The squadron moving again, this time to RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor in June 1943 as part of a policy to allow the newly formed Canadian 6 Group to use the better equipped RAF stations that had been built pre-war. The Squadron had a substantial number of Norwegian pilots and aircrew.
  From August 1942 to April 1943, No. 76 Squadron was commanded by Wing Commander Leonard Cheshire.
caption: No. 76 Squadron Handley Page Halifax B.I L9530 at RAF Middleton St. George, later shot down attacking Magdeburg.
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