No. 222 Group was a group of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Formed on 1 September 1941, based at Ceylon. Squadrons were stationed around the Indian Ocean. The group undertook long-range bombing and mine-laying operations that took them as far afield as Sumatra and Singapore. No. 99 Squadron RAF (Liberators) was based at Dhubulia in West Bengal from August 1944 - August 1945. It then moved to the Cocos Islands.