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- Notes
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Squadron Histories 211-215". Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation. 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
- ↑ "Squadrons 2 to 268". The Royal Air Force & Commonwealth Photographic Reconnaissance Squadrons 1939-1946. 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
- ↑ Gale, Tony (2012). "RAF Masirah". UK Mobile Air Movements Squadron Association. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
- ↑ Rickard, J. (15 February 2011). "No. 212 Squadron (RAF) during the Second World War". History of War. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
- Bibliography
- Halley, James J. (1980). The Squadrons of the Royal Air Force. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-083-9.
- Jefford, C.G. (2001) [1998]. RAF Squadrons, a Comprehensive Record of the Movement and Equipment of all RAF Squadrons and their Antecedents since 1912 (2nd ed.). Shrewsbury, UK: Airlife Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-84037-141-2.
