List of Douglas A-20 Havoc operators
List of A-20 Havoc operators identifies the country, military service, and unit that has been supplied or purchased A-20s.
RAF Boston III from No. 88 Squadron RAF over Dieppe Harbour, 1942
Operators
Australia
- Royal Australian Air Force operated 69 Aircraft, 22 DB-7B, 9 A-20C, 9 A-20A and 29 A-20G
Brazil
- Brazilian Air Force operated 30 A-20K and 1 A-20C
- 1st Bomb Group Light
- 2nd Bomb Group Light
France
- French Air Force
- No. 342 Sqn RAF (Free French)Boston III/IV
Japan
Japanese forces captured some Dutch DB-7B's in Java.
Netherlands
- Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force received only some of the DB-7Bs shipped in lieu of DC-7Cs actually ordered.
South Africa
USSR
Received 2,908 Douglas Havocs, or over one third of total production.
- Soviet Air Force
- Soviet Naval Air Service
- The Soviet Naval Air Service's primary anti-shipping aircraft were Havoc A-20Gs armed with torpedoes and mines.[3]
United Kingdom
- Royal Air Force[4][5][6]
- No. 13 Squadron RAF
- No. 14 Squadron RAF
- No. 18 Squadron RAF
- No. 23 Squadron RAF
- No. 55 Squadron RAF
- No. 85 Squadron RAF
- No. 88 Squadron RAF
- No. 93 Squadron RAF
- No. 107 Squadron RAF
- No. 114 Squadron RAF
- No. 226 Squadron RAF
- No. 530 Squadron RAF
- No. 531 Squadron RAF
- No. 532 Squadron RAF
- No. 533 Squadron RAF
- No. 534 Squadron RAF
- No. 535 Squadron RAF
- No. 536 Squadron RAF
- No. 537 Squadron RAF
- No. 538 Squadron RAF (formerly No. 1459 Flight RAF) - Turbinlite
- No. 539 Squadron RAF
- No. 605 Squadron RAF
Notes
- "A28 Douglas Boston". RAAF Museum. 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-07-26. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
- Kostenuk, S.; Griffin, J. (1977). RCAF Squadron Histories and Aircraft: 1924–1968. Toronto, ON: Samuel Stevens, Hakkert & Co. pp. 110–111. ISBN 978-0888665775.
- Lend-Lease on airforce.ru. Conversation with the maintenance chief of an A-20G Boston of the 51st MTAP (Mine-Torpedo Air Regiment), Nikolay Alekseevich Sterlikov (regiment commander's aircraft, serial number 43-10067, tail number 51) Moscow, 29 December 2002
- Thetford, Owen (1957). Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1918-57 (1st ed.). London: Putnam.
- "RAF Fighter Command Index". Archived from the original on 2007-07-20. Retrieved 2007-07-28.
- "RAF Bomber Command Index". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-07-28.
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