No. 115 Squadron flew
anti-submarine patrols along the coasts of
British Columbia and
Southeast Alaska as part of
Western Air Command. On 7 July 1942,
Flight Sergeant PMG W. E. Thomas and the crew of
Bristol Bolingbroke maritime patrol aircraft No. 9118 sighted a target breaking the surface and emitting white "smoke" in the
Pacific Ocean northwest of the
Queen Charlotte Islands. At first thinking it was a
whale, they quickly concluded that they could see the underwater silhouette of
submarine at least in length and attacked, dropping a single or The Bolingbroke crew shared credit with
McLane and
YP-251 for the sinking, and in 1947 the
Joint Army-Navy Assessment Committee identified their victim as the
Imperial Japanese Navy submarine . In 1967, however, the U.S. Navy retracted this assessment because
Ro-32 had been inactive in Japan at the time of the sinking and was found afloat in Japan at the end of the war. No. 115 Squadron disbanded at
Tolfino, British Columbia, in August 1944. ==Equipment==