page_title: No. 48 Squadron RAF
section_title: Second World War
hierarchical_section_title: No. 48 Squadron RAF / History / Second World War
caption_attribution_description: A Royal Air Force Lockheed Hudson Mark V (s/n AM853, 'OY-K') of No. 48 Squadron RAF based at Wick, Caithness (UK), in flight along the Scottish coastline.
context_page_description: No. 48 Squadron was a Royal Air Force squadron that saw service in both the First and Second World Wars.
context_section_description: The squadron reformed on 25 November 1935 at RAF Bicester, and became a General Reconnaissance unit operating Avro Anson aircraft. With the outbreak of war in 1939 the squadron was engaged in coastal patrols along the south coast of England. In 1941 the squadron re-equipped with Lockheed Hudson aircraft and took on the role of an anti-submarine squadron, patrolling first the North Sea; in December 1942 the squadron moved to RAF Gibraltar to patrol the Mediterranean.
  In 1944 the squadron returned to the UK and was re-equipped with Douglas Dakota aircraft.  It remained a transport squadron until being disbanded on 16 January 1946. During this period it operated from Chittagong, Bengal, India on supply operations in the Irrawaddy valley of Burma.
caption: A 48 Squadron Hudson Mk V off the Scottish coastline, in early 1942.
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