Gainesy,
Keep up! The gun's back in.
Archimedes,
'Less probably' the three Jag units?
No.41 - the top-scoring unit in the Battle of Britain?
No.54 - similarly distinguished?
No.6 with its long and virtually unbroken period in service?
All units with a multi-role background, compared to the decidedly 'second-string' No.s 5, 11, and especially the undistinguished ex-Bloodhound unit, 25?
I'll give you 43 and 111, and how 19, 92, 56 and 74 ever ceased to be frontline identities is beyond me! But even if they ditch 25, 5 and 11, there are more Squadron identities worth saving than unit's to use them on.
Now's got to be the time to do what the French do and allocate squadron identities to what are now Flights. Then (and here's a novelty) you'd have 'Squadrons' commanded by Squadron Leaders, and four-ship leader Flight Lieutenants would be leading 'Flights'.
Or would this just underline the over-abundance of Air Officers?