When will the dorks who create these press releases ever get their facts correct?
No 602 (City of Glasgow) Sqn was the first RAuxAF Sqn to be formed. It distinguished itself during World War II and is remembered as having shot down the first enemy aircraft over British soil in Oct 39.
Quite wrong
Battle of Britain history of No. 603 Squadron.
It was operational with Spitfires in time to intercept the first German air raid on the British Isles on 16 October, when it destroyed the first enemy aircraft to be shot down over Britain in the Second World War.
Both quotes from the RAF web pages: the second is the correct one
Concur with the comments on the farcical appointment of Goodwin
