page_title: No. 277 Squadron RAF
section_title: Formation in World War II
hierarchical_section_title: No. 277 Squadron RAF / History / Formation in World War II
caption_attribution_description: English: Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. Westland Lysander Mark IIIA, V9547 ‘BA-E’, an air-sea rescue aircraft of No. 277 Squadron RAF, airborne from Hawkinge, Kent, with a couple of M-Type dinghy containers slung under the stub-wings just above the spatted landing wheels, and four smoke floats fitted to the small bomb carrier on the rear fuselage.
context_page_description: No. 277 Squadron RAF was a Royal Air Force Squadron formed as an air-sea rescue unit in World War II.
context_section_description: The squadron formed at Stapleford Tawney on 22 December 1941 equipped with the Lysander and Walrus. Defiants and Spitfires were then supplied for spotting downed aircrew in the English Channel.
  The Warwick which could drop lifeboats was operated from November 1944 and the squadron was able to increase its area of operations with a detachment based at RAF Portreath. The squadron was disbanded On 15 February 1945.
caption: A Lysander of 277 Squadron operating from RAF Hawkinge
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