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Women's Auxiliary Air Force officers‎ (48 P) Pages in category "Royal Air Force personnel of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,418 total.
In March 1943, No. 145 Squadron pilots who came from the United States, Britain, New Zealand, Argentina, Trinidad, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and Poland were credited with 20 Axis aircraft destroyed, over one third of the total destroyed by the entire RAF in the MTO for that month. [2] On 19 August 1945, the Squadron disbanded in northern ...
London Biggin Hill, a former RAF station This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They are listed under any former county or country name which was appropriate for the duration of operation. During 1991, the RAF had several Military Emergency Diversion Aerodrome (MEDA) airfields: RAF ...
1956: Avro Vulcan. 1958: Handley Page Victor. RAF Bomber Command controlled the Royal Air Force 's bomber forces from 1936 to 1968. Along with the United States Army Air Forces, it played the central role in the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II. From 1942 onward, the British bombing campaign against Germany became less restrictive ...
Eagle Squadrons. The Eagle Squadrons were three fighter squadrons of the Royal Air Force (RAF) formed with volunteer pilots from the United States during the early days of World War II (1940), prior to the United States' entry into the war in December 1941. With the United States still neutral, many Americans simply crossed the border and ...
List of aircraft of the Royal Air Force. Many aircraft types have served in the British Royal Air Force since its formation in April 1918 from the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service. This is a list of RAF aircraft, including all currently active and retired types listed in alphabetic order by their RAF type name.
No. 18 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit RAF. No. 61 Group RAF. No. 83 Group Support Unit RAF. No. 665 Squadron RCAF. No. 1409 Flight RAF. No. 1425 (Communication) Flight RAF. No. 1435 Flight RAF. Northwest African Air Service Command. Northwest African Photographic Reconnaissance Wing.
The Royal Air Force Memorial. Designated. 24 February 1958. Reference no. 1066171. The Royal Air Force Memorial is a military memorial on the Victoria Embankment in central London, dedicated to the memory of the casualties of the Royal Air Force in World War I (and, by extension, all subsequent conflicts). Unveiled in 1923, it became a Grade II ...