Squadron Newsletters
Air Commodore Sir Hughie Edwards VC, KCMG, CB, DSO, OBE, DFC remarked:
"Your Squadron had a most illustrious record in WWII and its strong sense of comradeship and esprit de corps has been made apparent by the fact that your quarterly paper 458 Squadron News has been kept alive for twenty five years. This is a tribute to the feeling inculcated in you during those desperate days of the War."
We have now been in publication for 76 years - the August 2025 edition is Journal number 280
We are now seeking contributions for the 281st edition. Please forward stories in Microsoft Word format and scanned photographs to editor@458raafsquadron.org or by post to Roland Orchard, 78 Edward Road, Chirnside Park, Victoria, 3116, Australia. Please do not send original photographs as we would not want them to be lost in the mail system. Scanned Photos only.
Please send all contributions by 30th November 2025.
The current newsletter..
Previous Newsletters are available below...
Please help us find missing Newsletters from 1955 and 1957: #23, #24 and #32. Thank you. Breaking News (as of April 2025) all three are found and are included below. We have a complete set!
Ron Kirk meets the Queen. December 2010 Newsletter.
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