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	Royal Air Force - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the UK Armed Forces.
		The decision to merge the two units and create an independent air force was a response to the events of World War I which was the first war in which air power proved to be decisive.
		The Tornado F.3 is the RAF's air defence fighter aircraft, based at RAF Leuchars and RAF Leeming to defend the UK’s airspace.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Royal_Air_Force (3919 words)

	Royal Air Force - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces.
		The RAF is the oldest independent air force in the world, formed on April 1, 1918.
		Having absorbed the former Queen's Flight in 1996, 32 (The Royal) Squadron uses the BAe 125 CC.3, Agusta A109 and BAe 146 CC.2 in the VIP transport role, based at RAF Northolt in west London.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Royal_Air_Force (4058 words)

	United Kingdom: Royal Air Force rank flags
		Royal Air Force rank flags are light blue with dark blue edges at the top and bottom, each equal to about 1/7 of the hoist, with combinations of wide and narrow red stripes on the light blue field indicating rank.
		Royal Air Force rank flags are made in only one size - 2 feet by 3 feet (0.61 m by 0.91 m) - and are flown at the masthead to indicate the rank of a station commander.
		The Royal Air Force ensign is flown at the peak.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/gb-rafrk.html (495 words)

	Marshal of the Royal Air Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marshal of the Royal Air Force (MRAF) is the highest rank in the Royal Air Force.
		It was later decided to use the rank of Air Marshal as an equivalent rank to Lieutenant General and the highest RAF rank was titled Marshal of the Air.
		This is worn on the both the lower sleeves of the tunic or on the shoulders of the flying suit or the casual uniform.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marshal_of_the_Royal_Air_Force (437 words)

	Marshal of the Air Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marshal of the Air Force is both a generic term for the most senior rank in an air force, equivalent to Field Marshal or Fleet Admiral and, in some air forces, a rank title.
		The oldest such rank is the British Marshal of the Royal Air Force.
		In some Commonwealth countries which use an air force rank structure derived from the Royal Air Force, Marshal of the Air Force is not only the most senior rank (in a generic sense), but also a rank title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marshal_of_the_Air_Force (317 words)

	Great Aviation Quotes: Air Power
		Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.
		Air battle is not decided in a few great clashes but over a long period of time when attrition and discouragement eventually cause one side to avoid the invading air force.
		Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.
	www.skygod.com /quotes/airpower.html (3905 words)

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		One of the chief functionaries of a royal household or court; in the middle ages usually entrusted with the military affairs of his sovereign.
		marshal of the admiralty: an officer of the Court of Admiralty.
		In the English royal household the `Marshal of the ceremonies' is now an official of the Lord Chamberlain's department, ranking below the `Master of the ceremonies'.
	web.mit.edu /adorai/oed/marshal (761 words)

	The Royal Air Force - History Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The concept of a British military air force was born in 1911 when Herbert Asquith, the Prime Minister, instructed the Committee of Imperial Defence to examine the question of naval and military aviation and suggest measures to create an efficient air force.
		In 1918 the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service were amalgamated to form the Royal Air Force and as part of the reorganisation CFS became the Flying Instructors School.
		The Air Ministry decided in between courses the staff should visit flying training schools to check whether their system and standard of instruction was being maintained and this was the beginning of the Examining Wing.
	www.raf.mod.uk /history/cfshistory.html (2046 words)

	Armed Forces - Royal Air Force - r2 - RAF Command - Air Force Board - Air Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy
		The Chief of the Air Staff is the officer ultimately responsible for the Royal Air Force's contribution to the national defence effort.
		He was the Station Commander Royal Air Force Bruggen, Germany, before graduating from the Royal College of Defence Studies in December 1997 and subsequently completing the Higher Command and Staff Course in April 1998.
		Air Marshal Torpy was ACOS J3 (Operations) in the PJHQ during Operation DESERT FOX and the Kosovo crisis, and spent a short time as Director Air Operations in the Ministry of Defence before taking over as Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations).
	www.armedforces.co.uk /raf/listings/l0005.html (902 words)

	CHAPTER 1 The Royal Air Force and Early New Zealand Representation \| NZETC
		A strong air contingent in the Middle East and a somewhat smaller force in India soon became a cheap substitute for part of the military garrison in those areas, while in Iraq the main control was actually transferred from the Army to the Air Force.
		The bomber force was divided into six operational groups, located along the eastern side of England in areas designed to suit the range of their aircraft and the purpose for which they were to be used.
		MacLean, after distinguished service with the Royal Fusiliers and the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, which included command of a wing in France, served with the RAF in India and then in the Middle East, where he was in charge of air bases in Iraq, Egypt, and at Aden.
	www.nzetc.org /tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-1RAF-c1.html (9410 words)

	Royal Air Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		During the conflict the Royal Air Force lost 792 planes and the Luftwaffe 1,389.
		Air Chief Marshal Charles Portal and the new head of Bomber Command, Arthur Harris, developed the policy of area bombing (known in Germany as terror bombing) where entire cities and towns were targeted.
		Defence against air attacks required the production of thousands of anti-aircraft guns, the stockpiling of tremendous quantities of ammunition over the country, and holding in readiness hundreds of thousands of soldiers, who in addition had to stay in position by their guns, often totally inactive, for months at a time.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWraf.htm (7422 words)

	Field Marshal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		air force equivalent (used in some countries) is Marshal of the Air Force where Air Force is replaced by name of the service in question for Marshal of the Royal Air Force.
		The office of Marshal was known in England from the twelfth century but in introduction of the modern military title Great Britain was a relative latecomer.
		In the Soviet Union the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was actually the second-highest rank; Josef Stalin who had appointed himself an "MSU" promoted himself to the rank of Generalissimo of the Soviet Union a rank and only he was ever appointed to
	www.freeglossary.com /Feldmarschall (1231 words)

	Air Chief Marshal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Air Chief Marshal (Air Chf Mshl or ACM) is a rank in the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom.
		Marshal of the Royal Air Force is higher, but has not been used since the defence cuts of the 1990s.
		An Air Chief Marshal is equivalent to an Admiral in the Royal Navy and a General in the British Army or Royal Marines.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Air_Chief_Marshal (391 words)

	Tedder: Quietly in Command (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		As Eisenhower’s deputy and air commander during the liberation of Europe between 1943 and 1945, and as air officer commanding (AOC) Middle East from 1941 to 1943, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Tedder fully earned his reputation as one of the outstanding Allied high commanders of the Second World War.
		He was appointed squadron leader in the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1919 and then rose steadily through the ranks during the 1920s and early 1930s to reach air commodore in 1934, when he became the Air Ministry’s director of training at the beginning of the first of the pre–Second World War RAF expansion programmes.
		Tedder was promoted to air chief marshal in 1942 and became a Marshal of the Royal Air Force in September 1945.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/bookrev/orange.html (737 words)

	British Military Aviation in 1956 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Air Chief Marshal Sir Dermot Boyle succeeds Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir William Dickson as Chief of the Air Staff.
		Marshal of the Royal Air Force Viscount Trenchard of Wolfeton dies at his home in London, aged 83.
		The aircraft was flown by Squadron Leader D.R. Howard, with Air Marshal Sir Harry Broadhurst, Air Officer Commanding in Chief, Bomber Command, as a member of the crew.
	www.rafmuseum.org.uk /milestones-of-flight/british_military/1956.html (948 words)

	Breitenlohner Review: Winter 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A retired RAF air commodore with a long record of service, Probert is also a former head of the Air Historical Branch of the Ministry of Defence.
		He was a strong-willed, opinionated, and forceful commander who promised to inject a sense of purpose into a force that was flagging, and to do his utmost to build up its striking power.
		Relations between Bomber Command and the Air Ministry’s Directorate of Bomber Operations were frosty, due in no small part to Harris’s contempt for what he believed to be the Air Staff’s ill-advised criticism of, and interference in, the operation of his command.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /press/Review/2002/winter/br12-w02.htm (874 words)

	V27N1 - Personality Profile: Air Marshall Sir Arthur Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Among one of the most controversial commanders in World War II is Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, Marshal of the Royal Air Force and Commander-in-Chief of the RAF Bomber Command from 1942 to 1945.
		It was around this time that the prominence of air power in future wars began to surface with General Gulio Douhet in Italy, and in the United States, General Billy Mitchell, propounding theories that an enemy could be bombed into submission with little help from the army and the navy.
		Although Harris was promoted Air Marshal at the end of the war in 1945, he was not made a peer unlike the other high commanders of the war.
	mindef.gov.sg /safti/pointer/back/journals/2001/Vol27_1/10.htm (1351 words)

	460 Squadron RAAF - Roll of Honour
		Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Sir Arthur T. Harris, Baronet, Knight Grand Cross, The Most Honourable Award of the Bath and Office of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Airforce Cross, Doctor of Laws, Commander-in-Chief, Bomber Command from 1942 to 1945.
		When he says fit, he means that they were fit to have been up in the front line of the German armies on the various fronts and not clicking their heels around Germany waiting for the strategic bombers and wondering where they were going to strike next.
		I would say that you also scored the biggest air victory of the war, because you did what Baume said was the one thing you had to do to defeat an enemy was to drive them on to the defensive and you certainly did that.
	users.tpg.com.au /adsls7ld/accolades.html (2608 words)

	Marshal of the Royal Air Force (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Marshal of the RAF sleeve/shoulder insignia Marshal of the Royal Air Force was the highest rank in the Royal Air Force.
		While surviving Marshals of the RAF retain the rank for life,the highest rank to which officers on active service are promoted is Air Chief Marshal.
		Marshal of the RAF command flag The command flag of a Marshal of the Royal Air Force is an amalgamation of the Air Vice Marshal and Air Marshal command flags.
	marshal-of-the-royal-air-force.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (535 words)

	BOOKS -- BATTLE OF BRITAIN BOOKS #7
		Slessor, John, Sir, Marshal of the Royal Air Force.
		Foreword by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Viscount Trenchard.
		"In the new arena of air warfare in 1940 Camm's Hurricane eight-gun fighter-agile, fast, stable, rugged, available in just adequate numbers and flown to its forgiving limits by the young pilots in Dowding's Fighter Command-was the dominant factor in one of the decisive battles of all time; a victory which changed history.".
	www.au.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/britain/britbk7.htm (666 words)

	207 Squadron Royal Air Force Association - Memories - 60th Anniversary of the Squadron
		Lord Tedder, son of MRAF Lord Tedder of Glenquin, kindly agreed to sign a number of covers in recognition of his late father's connection with and affection for the Squadron, which he commanded as a Sqn Ldr from Feb 1920 to July 1923.
		MARSHAL OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE LORD TEDDER OF GLENGUIN, GCB, RA, DCL, LLD
		With the rank of Air Marshal he was made Deputy to the AOC-in-C, RAF Middle East and a year later, in 1941, was himself appointed to that most senior post.
	www.207squadron.rafinfo.org.uk /memories_60anniv.htm (626 words)

	The Royal Family > HRH The Prince of Wales and family > Military career (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Prince of Wales inspects the Royal Welsh Regiment at Cardiff Castle
		In 1971 he spent six months at the Royal Air Force College at Cranwell learning to fly jet aircraft and obtaining his RAF wings.
		He currently holds the rank of Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy, Lieutenant-General in the Army and Air Marshal in the Royal Air Force.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page460.asp (206 words)

	Sir Michael Beetham, Marshal of the Royal Air Force visit to 2620 Sqn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		On parade was The Sovereigns Colour of The Royal Auxiliary Air Force, carried by Flight Lieutenant Paul Chegwidden of 2620 Sqn, 60 members of the Sqn and the band of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell.
		The Inspector's Cup is awarded in recognition in the outstanding contribution made by the Sqn to the Royal Auxiliary Air Force in the year 2000.
		With its role to support and provide force protection for the RAF both in the UK and overseas, the squadron are currently recruiting men and women aged 18-45 who are seeking a challenging way to spend some of their spare time.
	www.rafmarham.co.uk /relations/visits/2620-story.htm (305 words)

	The Current Royal Family > HRH The Duke of Edinburgh > Military involvement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Duke is Colonel in Chief of the Army Cadet Force
		In 1952, he was appointed Admiral of the Sea Cadet Corps, Colonel-in-Chief of the Army Cadet Force and Air Commodore-in-Chief of the Air Training Corps.
		He is also Captain-General of the Royal Marines and Colonel-in-Chief, or Colonel, of a number of British and overseas regiments.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page440.asp (139 words)

	The Prince of Wales - About the Prince (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Prince of Wales currently holds the ranks of Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy, Air Marshal in the Royal Air Force and Lieutenant General in the Army.
		His Royal Highness began his career in the Armed Services in March 1971, when he started a four-month attachment with the Royal Air Force at Cranwell, Lincolnshire.
		Following a lieutenant's course at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, The Prince was given command of his own ship, the minehunter HMS Bronington, for the final ten months of his active service in the Royal Navy ending on 15th December, 1976.
	www.princeofwales.gov.uk /about/bio_armed_services.html (621 words)

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