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Edward Addison. John Aiken (Royal Air Force officer) Frederick Alan Aikman. Cyril Aldred. Michael Aldridge. Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (1924–2016) Kenneth Alexander (economist) Nicholas Alkemade.
Mieczysław Adamek. Les Adams (rugby league) Jack Agazarian. Noel Agazarian. Napier Sturt, 3rd Baron Alington. Geoffrey Allard. Charles Allberry. John Allen (RAF officer) Michael Anderson (cricketer, born 1916)
RAF recruitment poster featuring the Handley Page Halifax. The aircrews of RAF Bomber Command during World War II operated a fleet of bomber aircraft carried strategic bombing operations from September 1939 to May 1945, on behalf of the Allied powers. The crews were men from the United Kingdom, other Commonwealth countries, and occupied Europe ...
1,423 metres (4,669 ft) Asphalt. Royal Air Force Edzell or more simply RAF Edzell is a former Royal Air Force satellite station located in Aberdeenshire, one mile east of Edzell in Angus, Scotland. It was active for over fifty years, first as a RAF airfield during the Second World War, and later on lease to the United States Navy, from 1960 ...
Length and surface. 09/27. 2,530 metres (8,301 ft) Asphalt. Royal Air Force Upper Heyford or more simply RAF Upper Heyford is a former Royal Air Force station located 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Bicester near the village of Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, England. In the Second World War the airfield was used by RAF Bomber Command.
RAF Fighter Command. RAF Fighter Command was one of the commands of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1936 to allow more specialised control of fighter aircraft. It served throughout the Second World War. It earned near-immortal fame during the Battle of Britain in 1940, when the Few held off the Luftwaffe attack on Britain.
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. [5] It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the second independent air force in the world after the Finnish Air Force (established 6 March 1918), [6] by merging the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS ...
Mary Welsh. William Welsh (RAF officer) John Whitley (RAF officer) John Whitworth-Jones. Philip Wigglesworth. Categories: Royal Air Force air marshals. Royal Air Force personnel of World War II. British military leaders of World War II.