2 Squadron South African Air Force

Unit

113 records in this database

2 Squadron, South African Air Force. Formed on 1 October 1940 and known as the "Flying Cheetahs". It has served in every SAAF combat operation since, through the Second World War, the Korean War and the Border War, and is still flying, operating the JAS 39 Gripen from AFB Makhado.

The Rhodesian Air Force squadron of the same number is a separate unit and has its own record, OrgEntityID 6767.

CORRECTED 25 September 2026. This entity previously carried Branch "Rhodesian" and a description asserting it was Rhodesian Air Force No. 2 Squadron, sourced to Geldenhuys, Rhodesian Air Force Operations. That was wrong: every casualty attached here is South African, almost all with Corps "South African Air Force". The Rhodesian description was matched on the bare squadron number, which South Africa and Rhodesia both used, and the force-split of 27 August 2026 then moved the Rhodesians out to their own entity while the Rhodesian label stayed behind on the South Africans.

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Formation	Type	Relationship	Dates
Rhodesian Air Force - Squadrons	Category	organic
rsf-oob:rhodesian-air-force

Personnel

113 on the roll across 3 Force tags — this organisation name is shared by more than one defence force / era.

All (113) Union Defence Force (99) South African Defence Force (11) South African National Defence Force (3)

#	Last Name	First Name	Initials	Rank	Force	Regiment	Corps	Date of Death
28781	Wood	Loxley Delville	L D	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1941-12-02
33887	Wilson	William Edmund St. Elmo	W E St E	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1951-02-02
28569	Wilmot	John Graham Hunter	J G H	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1942-10-29
33852	Whitehead	Kenneth Ralph	K R	Second Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1951-12-03
28131	Whaits	Charles Albert	C A	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1941-10-12
27836	Watson	Bramwell Leonard	B L	Air Mechanic	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1943-12-17
33800	Warren	James Charles	J C	Lance Corporal	SADF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1972-02-10
27724	Warden	James Stewart	J S	Second Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1942-06-30
33766	Volkersz	Steven	S	1st Lieutenant	SADF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1980-10-10
33721	Verster	Jesse Powell	J P	Second Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1951-07-01
27285	Vermaak	Xavier	X	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1946-07-16
33565	Van Rensburg	Claude Kenneth	C K	Stoker	UDF		South African Navy	1948-10-17
33564	Van Reenen	Sebastiaan Valentine	S V	Second Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1951-01-26
25528	Truter	St. Elmo	S E	Major	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1941-08-21
33216	Taylor	David Lacey	D L	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1952-03-20
24439	Sturman	Denis Hubert Byrne	D H B	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1941-10-22
24156	Stewart	Brian Henry	B H	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1944-10-08
33062	Staats	Robert Leslie	R L	Second Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1952-01-17
32851	Scott	Theodore Christian	T C	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1952-07-09
32767	Ruiter	Denis Aidan	D A	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1951-03-02
32731	Rorke	Michael Hope	M H	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1951-05-15
32454	Pearce	Lynol Bramley	L B	Major	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1951-07-09
19854	Peak	Cecil Charles Graham	C C G	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1942-07-18
32438	Patterson	Willem Daniel	W D	Corporal	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1951-09-26
32429	Parsonson	Laurence Walter	L W	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1952-01-06
32423	Pappas	Critton John	C J	Second Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1951-11-04
19627	Pannell	Douglas Dolley	D D	Captain	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1941-09-05
19559	Paddon	David	D	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1942-05-27
40739	Orr	John	J	Commandant	SADF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1990-03-28
32305	Norman-Smith	Peter Ian	P I	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1951-12-03
18721	Niblock-Stuart	John Douglas	J D	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1940-12-24
18609	Newby	Eric Tom	E T	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1943-06-29
31979	Montgomery	Percy	P		SANDF			1998-01-10
31978	Montanari	Francesco Antonio	F A	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1951-09-12
31784	Moir	John	J	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1952-12-25
16661	Miller	James Barton	J B	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1945-02-20
16675	Miller	Robert Charles Wilton	R C W	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1941-10-06
16185	McMASTER	Harold Sinclair	H S	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1942-11-11
15975	McGARR	Clement Aldwyn Neville	C A N	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1944-04-06
15912	McDONALD	Alastair	A	Second Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1940-10-23
15874	McCONNELL	David Edward Halse	D E H	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1941-08-11
15428	Masson	Alfred Quinton	A Q	Captain	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1941-07-29
31612	Maree	Paul Johannes	P J	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1955-05-24
15068	Marais	Johannes Eckardt Oosthuizen	J E O	Colonel	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1942-01-07
31598	Marais	Johannes Stephanus	J S	Airman	SADF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1988-09-01
31597	Marais	John James	J J	Second Lieutenant	UDF	1 Squadron	South African Air Force	1954-10-08
31602	Marais	Sarel Francois	S F	Private	SADF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1978-03-15
31413	Louw	Michael Anthony	M A	Air Mechanic	SADF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1969-07-19
13760	Loffhagen	Richard Francis	R F	Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1942-01-07
31335	Liebenberg	Tertius	T	Second Lieutenant	UDF	2 Squadron	South African Air Force	1951-06-09