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1943. 5 March – In an effort to decimate the German industrial base, Bomber Command begins bombing the Ruhr region. 25 March – Transport Command is formed by redesignating Ferry Command. 16 May – Aircraft of 617 Squadron set out on Operation Chastise, commonly known as the Dambusters Raid.
The history of the Royal Air Force, the air forceof the United Kingdom, spans a century of British military aviation. The RAF was founded on 1 April 1918, towards the end of the First World Warby merging the Royal Flying Corpsand the Royal Naval Air Service. After the war, the RAF was greatly reduced in size and during the inter-war years was ...
R. RAF Far East Flight. ROTOR. Royal Air Force Museum London. 2006 Royal Air Force Nimrod crash. Royal Air Force strikes of 1946.
On 10 May 1944, six Mosquitos of 248 Squadron, including two Tsetse aircraft, were ordered to attack the Japanese submarine I-29, carrying a cargo of rubber, tungsten, gold bullion and 25 Japanese senior naval officers, off Cape Peñas in northern Spain. The I-29 had a heavy escort, including two destroyers and two torpedo boats, together with ...
Bristol Blenheim (RAF) long range fighter and night fighter. Curtiss Mohawk (RAF) Curtiss Kittyhawk and Tomahawk (RAF) de Havilland Mosquito (RAF) night fighter & fighter-bomber. de Havilland Vampire (RAF) prototype jet fighter. Douglas Havoc (RAF) night fighter. Fairey Fulmar (FAA) fleet fighter. Fairey Firefly (FAA) fleet fighter.
5/6 March: The first raid of the Battle of the Ruhr [2] flew RAF Bomber Command's 100,000th sortie of World War II, with 160 acres destroyed and 53 Krupps buildings bombed at Essen. 13 April: The Eighth Air Force's largest mission to date (115 B-17s) destroys half of the Focke-Wulf factory buildings in Bremen
RAF roundel. The air forces of the United Kingdom – the Royal Navy 's Fleet Air Arm, the Army's Army Air Corps and the Royal Air Force use a roundel, a circular identification mark, painted on aircraft to identify them to other aircraft and ground forces. In one form or another, it has been used on British military aircraft from 1915 to the ...
No. 159 Squadron was reformed at RAF Molesworth on 2 July 1942 during the Second World War and its ground crew personnel were posted, without aircraft, to the Middle East on 12 February 1942 and then to India on 18 May 1942. Flying Consolidated Liberators, the squadron was posted to Palestine in July 1942 and carried out bombing raids in North ...