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  Royal Air Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Groups are the subdivisions of operational Commands, responsible for certain types of operation or for operations in limited geographical areas.
RAF squadrons are somewhat analogous to the regiments of the British army, in that they have histories and traditions going back to their formation, regardless of where they are currently based, which aircraft they are operating, etc. They can be awarded standards and battle honours for meritorious service.
British aircraft in the early stages of the First World War carried the Union Flag as an identifying feature, however this was easy to confuse with the German Iron Cross motif.
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 Small Wars Journal
The emphasis here is on the Army's stubborn insistence on pursuing a strategy of attrition, through large-unit operations and heavy firepower, and largely ignoring the political and social dimensions that form the foundation of successful counterinsurgency warfare.
Burton was the pre-eminent soldier-scholar at the height of the British Empire.
Sifaoui managed to infiltrate a militant Islamic group in Paris because he was from the same village in Algeria as one of the group’s members, whose trial he covered for a Luxembourg television station.
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 Ancestors Magazine - Family history from the National Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
British Army, the 1h, 1m, 2b, 2c, 2f, 2g, 2h, 2i, 2k, 2l, 3a, 3b, 3f, 3i, 3m, 3n, 4b, 4d, 4e, 4g, 5b, 5d, 5i, 6d, 6f, 6i, 6k, 6l, 7a, 7b, 7k, 8a, 8e, 8f, 9c, 9e, 10a, 10e, 10f, 10g, 11b, 11d, 11h, 11i, 12d, 12e, 12f, 12l
British Empire, the 1h, 1i, 1m, 2h, 2i, 2l, 3d, 3e, 3h, 3i, 3m, 3n, 4b, 4d, 4e, 4h, 4l, 5c, 8d, 10j, 10k, 11f, 12f
Royal Navy 1b, 1h, 1m, 2c, 2e, 2g, 2h, 2j, 2k, 3c, 3n, 4a, 4b, 4h, 4k, 5b, 5d, 5i, 5j, 6f, 6k, 6m, 7b, 8b, 8e, 8h, 9c, 9d, 9f, 9h, 9m, 10a, 11a, 11c, 11i, 11j, 11k, 12a, 12e, 12f, 12g,12k
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 T. Cadman
Army Air Forces (Western Flying Training Command) Tentative Students' Manual AT-6: Basic Flying no edit or pub date stated, 108 pp, many illus, good, light discoloration to covers and first 2 pp, wear to edges of covers, contents not affected except for first 2 pp, stringbound large softcover, $75
Army Air Forces Target Germany: The Army Air Forces' Official Story of the VIII Bomber Command's First Year Over Europe Simon and Schuster (NY) 1943, 1st edit, 121 pp, many photos, map, good+, DJ (missing piece from spine head and along top extremety), $50
Farwell, Byron The Gurkhas Norton (NY) 1984, 1st edit, 317 pp, photos and illus, their use in the British army, very good, DJ (spine is sunned), $25
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 Ground Zero Books Ltd. Title Index
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Roy's Trip to the Battlefields of Europe: Being the Diary of Royal A. Christian, Confidential Messenger to Col. M.
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