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| 2 | RAF Third Tactical Air Force - Squadrons |  |  |  |  |
| 3 | Squadron | Group | Date joined | Date left | Notes |
| 4 | No. 1 Squadron IAF | 221 | - | - | Fought in the battle of Imphal. Hawker Hurricane IIc. |
| 5 | No. 2 Squadron IAF | 221 | - | - | Fought in the battle of Imphal. Hawker Hurricane IIc. |
| 6 | No. 3 Squadron IAF | 224 | - | - | Fought in the battle of Imphal. Hawker Hurricane IIc. |
| 7 | No. 4 Squadron IAF | 224 | - | - | Fought in the battle of Imphal. Hawker Hurricane IIc. |
| 8 | No. 6 Squadron IAF | 224 | - | - | Hawker Hurricane FR.IIb specialist reconnaissance to support the Fourteenth Army on this front, earning the name "The Eyes of the Fourteenth Army" |
| 9 | No. 7 Squadron IAF | 221 | - | - | Fought in the battle of Imphal. Vultee Vengeance and later Hawker Hurricane IIc. |
| 10 | No. 8 Squadron IAF | 224 | - | - | Vultee Vengeance and later Spitfire. |
| 11 | No. 9 Squadron IAF | 221 | - | - | Fought in the battle of Imphal. Hawker Hurricane IIc |
| 12 | No. 5 Squadron RAF | 221 | - | - | in 1942 they received American-built Mohawks and became escorts to Blenheim bombers over north west Burma. These were replaced in turn by Hawker Hurricanes and later American-built Thunderbolts. |
| 13 | No. 11 Squadron RAF | 221 | - | - | Fought in the battle of Imphal. Hawker Hurricane IIc. |
| 14 | No. 20 Squadron RAF | 221 | - | - | Fought in the battle of Imphal. Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIC |
| 15 | No. 22 Squadron RAF | 222 | - | - | Equipped with Beaufighters, undertook anti-shipping rocket attacks. A month after the Japanese surrender, No. 22 Squadron disbanded. |
| 16 | No. 28 Squadron RAF | 221 | - | - | Flew the Lysander and from December 1942 the Hawker Hurricane fighter-bomber. By 1943 the squadron was operating in Burma until 1945 when it started to re-equip with the Supermarine Spitfire. |
| 17 | No. 34 Squadron RAF | 221 | - | - | Flew Blenheim IVs. These carried out bombing raids on Japanese bases in Burma until April 1943. |
| 18 | No. 42 Squadron RAF | 221 | - | - | Fought in the battle of Imphal. Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIC |
| 19 | No. 60 Squadron RAF | 221 | - | - | Blenhiem Mk IV then re-equipped with Hawker Hurricane MK II and in May 1945 with Republic Thunderbolts. Fought in the battle of Imphal. |
| 20 | No. 81 Squadron RAF | 221 | - | - | Arrived at Alipore, India in December 1943, equipped with more modern Spitfire VIII, starting operations in January. It flew fighter and ground attack missions in support of the Second Battle of Arakan and fought in the battle of Imphal. |
| 21 | No. 82 Squadron RAF | 221 | - | - | Flew the Vultee Vengeance then the squadron was re-equipped with Mosquitoes in July 1944. Fought in the battle of Imphal |
| 22 | No. 84 Squadron RAF | 221 | - | - | Flew the Vultee Vengeance then the squadron re-equipped with the Mosquito in February 1945. Fought in the battle of Imphal. |
| 23 | No. 110 Squadron RAF | 221 | - | - | Flew the Vultee Vengeance then the squadron re-equipped with the DH Mosquito. Fought in the battle of Imphal. |
| 24 | No. 113 Squadron RAF | 221 | - | - | Flew Blenhiem Mk IV and then converted to Hurricanes in March 1943. These were used for ground-attack duties being replaced by Thunderbolts in April 1945. |
| 25 | No. 123 Squadron RAF | 221 | - | - | Flew Hurricanes into 1944 when it was moved again to India in the Chittagong area until June 1944 it re-equipped with the Republic Thunderbolt. |
| 26 | No. 136 Squadron RAF | 221 | - | - | Flew Hurricanes till October 1943 and then Spitfires. Fought in the battle of Imphal |
| 27 | No. 152 Squadron RAF | 221 | 19 December 1943 | Duration | Fought in the battle of Imphal, operated Spitfires from front-line strips and supported the Fourteenth Army during its final conquest of Burma. |
| 28 | No. 176 Squadron RAF | 221 | - | - | Equipped with Beaufighters and Hurricanes to provide night defence for Calcutta. Detachments of the squadron were then based at Chittagong Burma, Ratmalana Ceylon, Baigachi and Mingaladon where the Beaufighters were replaced with Mosquitoes in June 1945. |
| 29 | No. 177 Squadron RAF | 224 | - | - | Equipped with Beaufighters, twin-engined, long range, ground attack fighters, Canadians formed a significant percentage of the pilots. During its two year of operations in Burma, it destroyed or damaged 266 locomotives and trains, 673 vehicles, a score of river and ocean-going vessels and nine aircraft on the ground. |
| 30 | No. 211 Squadron RAF | - | 8 January 1944 | Duration | Bristol Beaufighter X (October 1943 to May 1945) de Havilland Mosquito FB VI (June 1945 to March 1946) |
| 31 | No. 607 Squadron RAF | 221 | - | - | Flew Hurricanes and then Spitfires. Fought in the battle of Imphal. |
| 32 | No. 615 Squadron RAF | 221 | - | - | flew Spitfires and was re-equipped with Republic Thunderbolts when the squadron was renumbered to No. 615 squadron on that same day and began training for the invasion of Malaya. |
| 33 | No. 684 Squadron RAF | 231 | - | - | Photo-reconnaissance unit, it was disbanded on 1 September 1946 at RAF Seletar, Singapore by being renumbered to No. 81 Squadron RAF. |

Question: Which number planes were included in the RAF squadron?
Answer: The RAF squadrons included Nos. 5, 11, 20, 28, 34, 42, 60, 81, 82, 84, 110, 113, 123, 136, 152, 176, 607 and 615.