400 Tactical Helicopter Squadron
Motto:
PERCUSSURI VIGILES
(On the watch to strike)
Battle Honours:
Fortress Europe 1941-44, Dieppe, France and Germany 1944-45, Normandy 1944, Arnhem, Rhine, Biscay 1942-43
History:
This squadron was originally formed as No. 10 Army Co-Operation Squadron at Toronto on October 5, 1932. They were later renumbered to be No. 110 "City of Toronto" Army Co-Operation Squadron on November 15, 1937. The squadron was deployed to England in February 1940 and was redesignated as 400 Army Co-Operation Squadron on March 1 1941. At the end of the war, 400 Squadron was disbanded on August 7, 1945, at a captured airfield in Germany. 400 Squadron reformed at RCAF Station Downsview (Toronto) on April 15, 1946 as an Auxiliary Fighter-Bomber Squadron. Integration into the Canadian Armed Forces brought about another name change, this time to 400 "City of Toronto" Air Reserve Squadron. The Squadron's final name change occurred in the eighties, becoming 400 Tactical Helicopter and Training Squadron. The squadron moved to CFB Borden in 1996 and is now equipped with the CH-146 Griffon.
Placed by a member of the Lakeland Geocachers