No.544 Squadron was formed at Benson on 19 October 1942 with a miscellany of aircraft, flown until that date by the Photographic Reconnaissance Unit. Its Spitfires were detached to Gibraltar, while Wellingtons experimented with night photography, using this method operationally from December 1942. In March 1943, Mosquitoes were received and became the squadron's sole type when B Flight at Gibraltar was transferred to No.541 Squadron. For the rest of the war, it flew photographic reconnaissance missions over Europe. In June 1945 survey flights began and continued until the squadron was disbanded on 13 October 1945.
957 vertical aerial photographs.
