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The RAF Regiment fought as field, armoured car and light anti-aircraft (LAA) squadrons and flights in North Africa, the Middle East, Italy, the Balkans and North Western Europe, as well as 68 LAA squadrons defending the UK against V1 attacks as part of [[Operation Diver]], alongside the Royal Artillery's heavy anti-aircraft and LAA batteries. Amongst other things, RAF Regiment units were the first British forces to reach Paris, amongst the first to enter Brussels, and Squadron Leader Mark Hobden and his force arrested [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]'s successor as [[Führer|Fuhrer]], Grand Admiral [[Karl Dönitz|Karl Doenitz]], at his HQ in [[Flensburg]].{{sfn|Oliver|1997|p=118}}
On 26 November 1944, a [[Messerschmitt Me 262|Me 262A-2a]] Sturmvogel of III/KG51 based at Hopsten/Rheine near Osnabruck was the first confirmed ground-to-air kill of a jet combat aircraft. The 262 was shot down by a [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60|40/L60 40mm Bofors]] gun of B.11 Detachment of 2875 Squadron RAF Regiment, at the RAF forward airfield of Helmond, near Eindhoven. Others were lost to ground fire on 17 and 18 December when the same airfield was attacked at intervals by a total of eighteen Me 262s and the guns of Nos. 2873 and 2875 squadrons RAF Regiment damaged several, causing at least two of them to crash within a few miles of the airfield. In February 1945, Sergeant Pollards's B.6 gun detachment of 2809 Squadron RAF Regiment shot down another Me 262 over the airfield of
[[File:RAF Regiment Otter at Prkos Airfield IWM CL 3485.jpg|thumb|left|RAF Regiment [[Otter Light Reconnaissance Car|Otter]] at [[Zadar Airport|Prkos Airfield]] in [[Yugoslavia]] 1945]]
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