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A No. 4 Squadron Boomerang aircraft and ground crew in 1943

No. 4 Squadron is a Royal Australian Air Force forward air control training unit. No. 4 Squadron was first formed in 1916 and saw action over the Western Front, destroying 128 German aircraft. Following the war the Squadron formed part of the British Army of Occupation in Germany until it returned to Australia and was disbanded in 1919. No. 4 Squadron was reformed as an Army cooperation squadron in June 1940. In this role the Squadron supported Allied ground forces in New Guinea and Borneo. No. 4 Squadron was renamed No. 3 Squadron in March 1948 but was reactivated in 2009 in its current role.