| Unit Name: | No. 575 Squadron RAF |
| Dates: | 1 February 1944 – 15 August 1946 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Branch: | Royal Air Force |
| Type: | Inactive |
| Role: | Transport |
| Command Structure: | No. 46 Group, RAF Transport Command |
| Garrison Label: | Base |
| Motto: | The air is our path |
| Identification Symbol: | A hand couped at the wrist, supporting a terrestrial globe |
| Identification Symbol Label: | Squadron Badge heraldry |
| Identification Symbol 2: | I9 (Feb 1944 – Aug 1946) |
| Identification Symbol 2 Label: | Squadron Codes |
No. 575 Squadron RAF was a transport squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
The squadron was formed at RAF Hendon on 1 February 1944 from elements of 512 Squadron. Just two weeks later it moved to RAF Broadwell to work-up as a tactical transport squadron with the Douglas Dakota, the military transport version of the Douglas DC-3 airliner. The squadron's first operations were leaflet raids on France, on the eve of D-Day it dropped the 5th Para brigade into the invasion drop zone (Operation Tonga). On 6 June it towed 21 gliders into France. In the next few weeks it started a casualty evacuation service from France back to England. In September 1944 it was heavily involved in operations at Arnhem, suffering casualties.
After the end of the war the squadron began flying to and from India from RAF Melbourne in Yorkshire and later from RAF Blakehill Farm. In January 1946 it moved to RAF Bari in Italy to operate an air service between Italy, Austria, Romania, Greece and Bulgaria. It was eventually disbanded at RAF Kabrit, Egypt on 15 August 1946.
| February 1944 | August 1946 | Mk.III | ||
| June 1944 | May 1945 | Mk.I | ||
| March 1945 | August 1946 | Douglas Dakota | Mk.IV |
| 1 February 1944 | 14 February 1944 | |||
| 14 February 1944 | 5 August 1945 | Dets. at B.56/Evere and B.70/Deurne, Belgium | ||
| 5 August 1945 | 16 November 1945 | |||
| 16 November 1945 | 11 January 1946 | |||
| 11 January 1946 | 26 July 1946 | |||
| 26 July 1946 | 15 August 1946 |
| February 1944 | December 1944 | W/Cdr. T.A. Jefferson, AFC | |
| December 1944 | July 1945 | W/Cdr. E.C. Deanesly, DFC | |
| July 1945 | August 1946 | W/Cdr. B.L. Duigan, DSO, DFC |