No. 3 Squadron RAAF

Mediterranean Theatre, 1940 -1943

No. 3 Squadron scrambles in the Western Desert

As the Allied armies fought across North Africa, first against the Italians and then the Vichy French and Rommel's Afrika Korps, one squadron of the RAAF was there from the beginning. No. 3 Squadron was the first RAAF squadron to leave Australia and played an important part in many of the important battles from 1940 to 1943 across North Africa, Tunisia and Sicily.

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Pilot Officer John Hooke, standing beside his wrecked aircraft in which he crash-landed. Sicily 1943