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	Royal Air Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The primary role of the RAF in the Cold War years was the defence of Europe against potential attack by the Soviet Union.
		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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Air_Force (3996 words)

	Encyclopedia: RAF Far East Air Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The RAF Far East Air Force was the command organisation that controlled all Royal Air Force assets in the east of Asia.
		The true ancestor of the postwar Far East Air Force was formed in November 1943, under Lord Louis Mountbatten the supreme Allied commander South East Asia Command.
		The Kingdom of Thailand is a country in southeast Asia, bordering Laos and Cambodia to the east, the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia to the south, and the Andaman Sea and Myanmar to the west.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/RAF-Far-East-Air-Force (2693 words)

	Encyclopedia: British Far East Command (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		British India Command under General Sir Archibald Wavell the Commander-in-Chief (CinC) of the Army of India and the Far East Command under Air Marshal Robert Brooke-Popham and from December 23, 1941 by Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Royds Pownall.
		The CinC Far East Command was responsible directly to the Chiefs of Staff for the operational control and general direction of training of all British land and air forces in Malaya, Burma, and Hong Kong, and for the co-ordination of plans for the defence of those territories.
		ABDACOM absorbed the British command in its entirety and CinC Far East Command Henry Royds Pownall became Wavell's Chief of Staff.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/British-Far-East-Command (590 words)

	Pease AFB, New Hampshire
		To the Air Force planners, the existence of the Portsmouth airport was merely coincidental.
		In December 1954 the 4018th Air Base Squadron was assigned to Portsmouth to oversee the initial phase of base construction.
		The 100th Air Refueling Squadron (ARS), which operated 18 Boeing KC-97 tankers, was assigned to the 100th BW on August 15, 1956.
	www.vermontel.net /~tomh/peasa.html (1396 words)

	RAF Bomber Command 1939-1945 : Rob Davis
		RAF Bomber Command with HQ at High Wycombe was responsible for most light and medium, and all heavy, bomber units.
		RAF Bomber Command Lancaster veterans speak with great affection of their aircraft, and over the years it has acquired a status equal to that of its wartime comrade, the Supermarine Spitfire.
		Squadron Commanders were not required to operate on every raid, but one measure of their leadership skills was how often they and their crew actually did fly with the rest of the squadron.
	www.elsham.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /raf_bc (9164 words)

	The Far East
		While the level of urgency in the Far East may still not have been fully appreciated at command level in either theatre, the dispatch of a force of this size suggests some appreciation of the difficulties ahead.
		Of 211 Squadron’s air and ground crew who reached Tjilatjap, 64 aircrew and groundcrew were lucky to be among the last RAF personnel evacuated from Java to Australia on 2 March 1942, aboard 205 Squadron's tender for its Catalinas, RAFA Tung Song.
		In the period immediately before surrender to the Japanese, about 7,000 RAF personnel were evacuated from Sumatra and Java (although not all made it to safety), leaving 5,100 taken prisoner in Java, many of them unarmed and many skilled tradesmen.
	pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/24825/20020806/users.bigpond.com/clardo/the_far_east.html (1763 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		RAF Far East Command Seletar Field, Singapore Air Officer Commanding
		User:Philip Baird Shearer Philip Baird Shearer 11:23, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC) '''Far East Command''' is a military regional division of the British military.
		It was also a historical command of the United States military, one of that country's first joint commands.
	www.mauspfeil.net /British_Far_East_Command.html (992 words)

	Ops - Far East_P
		By the end of the year the problem had been dealt with and RAF China disbanded and the units and personnel returned to the UK by October.
		Under the command of Gp Capt H M Cave-Brown-Cave it then carried out a tour of Australia before returning to Singapore and being re-named No 205 Sqn.
		Whilst the RAF were not directly involved in the fighting (units of the RAAF and FAA where), RAF Sunderlands carried out maritime patrols and a number of RAF personnel were attached to USAF and RAAF units both as advisors and to gain experience.
	www.rafweb.org /Ops_FE.htm (706 words)

	The Royal Air Force - News, Events and Current Operations
		Four RAF Policemen from the Tactical Police Wing (TPW) and a RAF Russian Interpreter from the Joint Arms Control Implementation Group (JACIG), all based at RAF Henlow, were key players in support of the Russian Mini-submarine rescue in the Kamchatsky region of Russia over the weekend.
		RAF Halton's Groves Mess is to play a leading role in the forthcoming BBC series Hotel Babylon.
		A Sea King helicopter and truck from RAF Boulmer delivered a massive 2,500 fish and chip meals to VE/VJ war veterans celebrating the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War on 15th August.
	www.raf.mod.uk /news (991 words)

	History of U.S. Naval Operations, Korea: Chapter 7, Part 1
		The Commander in Chief was firm, both as to the amphibious assault and as to the objective, while the headquarters staff, seeing the strategic desirability clear, seemed to feel that tactical obstacles could be solved by the issuance of orders.
		A squadron commander was lifted from the destroyers, an air planner from Admiral Hoskins’ staff, and on the 25th, leaving his flagship to follow him, Commander Seventh Fleet flew to Tokyo.
		In the air, perhaps, the Far East Command’s air and naval contingents could have withstood a Communist offensive, but with regard to undersea warfare the situation was very different.
	www.history.navy.mil /books/field/ch7a.htm (4564 words)

	Airfield History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Royal Air Force Station Waterbeach, was built between 1939 and 1941 and stands on part of the lands of Waterbeach Abbey.
		The Abbey was founded in 1294 and a rose and a sprig of gilliflower was demanded yearly as rent for the land.
		In 1966, the RAF Airfield Construction Branch was disbanded, and it's role was taken over by the Army.
	www.raf514squadron.com /airfieldhistory.htm (719 words)

	The Far East
		The air party, including at least 6 aircrew survivors of the Squadron’s Greek campaign, flew their Blenheim IVs on the long air-route across Iraq, India and Burma to Sumatra.
		At the same time it would be fair to say that the level of urgency in the Far East was not fully appreciated.
		Airmen of RAF and RAAF origin alike had held the solar topee in no great regard: now they all took to the readily available bush hat with alacrity.
	pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/24825/20020506/users.bigpond.com/clardo/the_far_east.html (1710 words)

	Strategic Air Command Munitions Maintenance Squadrons in the Cold War
		Its nuclear mission has fallen to a contingency command, and its crews are no longer on “alert.” However, for over 40 years, the warriors of Strategic Air Command were ever vigilant, each performing his or her assigned task with dedication and precision.
		Air Training Command did this training for the Minute Man missile RV and warhead, but did not have the capability to do it for the MK 6.
		The Air Force was then faced with billions of dollars in law suits from private land owners along the river as well as city, county and state authorities for having not cleared the obstruction from the river.
	www.zianet.com /tmorris/mms.html (11524 words)

	Far East Command [UK]
		formed as an Anglo-American inter-service command with HQ at New Delhi, India, and encompassing the operational area of Burma, Malaya, Sumatra, and for clandestine missions Thailand and French Indochina
		Indian Ocean Air HQ with HQ in New Delhi
		Commanding General CBI Theatre (American) with HQ in New Delhi
	www.regiments.org /formations/uk-cmdarmy/os-fare.htm (214 words)

	RAF History - Bomber Command 60th Anniversary
		A late expansion scheme airfield, RAF Station Waterbeach was built on farmland at Windfold, north of Waterbeach village and adjacent to the A10 trunk road five miles outside Cambridge.
		Permanent buildings and the usual crescent of hangars facing the bombing circle were planned but the outbreak of war brought some modifications with only two Type J hangars erected on the technical site which lay on the south-east side.
		However, the station was retained by Transport Command, which moved in the Yorks of No. 51 Squadron in August 1946, which stayed until July 1948.
	www.raf.mod.uk /bombercommand/s49.html (890 words)

	WFotW ~ William Faulkner Trivia
		He returned to Oxford in his R.A.F. uniform sporting wings that he had purchased in New York City and with a limp he claimed he had suffered in a crash during training.
		The tales he told varied — on occasion he claimed he had suffered a skull fracture that had left him with a silver plate in his head and lingering pain, and when listeners assumed that he had incurred his "injuries" in the skies over France, he did little to dissuade their beliefs.
		In The Unvanquished, the name of the Union commander who ordered the return of Rosa Millard's silver (not to mention her mules and slaves) was named Colonel Nathaniel G. Dick (Hinkle and McCoy 112-13).
	www.mcsr.olemiss.edu /~egjbp/faulkner/trivia.html (2872 words)

	22 February 1942
		: Air Marshall Arthur Harris, aged 49, is appointed Head of Bomber Command for the RAF.
		: During the night of the 22-23d, 36 RAF Bomber Command aircraft attempt to bomb the floating dock at Wilhelmshaven which the Germans might be using to repair the battleships Scharnhorst or Gneisenau.
		The Japanese open a strong attacks against two brigades of the Indian 17th Division east of the Sittang River in the Mokpalin area before a withdrawal through the Sittang bridge bottleneck can be accomplished.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1942/02/22.htm (575 words)

	VIETNAM. "WARS OF THE THIRD KIND AND AIRFORCE DOCTRINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Air forces also are essential in the fast transport and resupply of counterinsurgent forces, as well as in providing reconnaissance, leaflet delivery and defense against insurgent air activities.
		As one of the architects of the air campaign against Iraq in the Gulf War and subsequently as the commandant of the Air Command and Staff College, his stature as an authority on airpower theory has grown significantly and his influence over an entire generation of Air Force officers is enormous.
		This edition of Air Force basic doctrine was signed by the Air Force Chief of Staff, General Curtis LeMay, the architect of the Strategic Air Command, and a prominent senior commander in the strategic bombing campaigns against both Germany and Japan during the Second World War.
	www.vietnam.ttu.edu /vietnamcenter/events/1996_Symposium/96papers/vietsymp.htm (9714 words)

	Dakota Operations in the Far East submitted by: Anthony Harratt
		At this time conversion to the Dakota was the responsibility of RAF Dishforth in Yorkshire, England where circuits and local flying were carried out.
		In 1948 one of the squadrons operating Dakota's was 48 Squadron of Air Command, Far East based at Changi.
		During the emergency there three DC-3's were positioned at Mingaladon to await arrangements being made firstly to supply the mission with food by air drop and later to fly out the occupants from the nearest airstrip at Anisakan.
	www.centercomp.com /cgi-bin/dc3/stories?1920 (1105 words)

	Archie - A Pilot in RAF Bomber Command - Air Raid on Scharnhorst and Gneisenau 1941
		An RAF reconnaissance Spitfire had brought back a photographs showing the German battleship Scharnhorst moored at La Rochelle, a port on the Atlantic coast of France.
		The Commanding Officer, Group Captain Don Oakden, was on the tarmac to greet the crew with the words "Welcome back even though it took you 40 years.
		Several aircraft were attacked by enemy fighters on the approach to the target and encounters were experienced over the target area, some of the enemy aircraft paying little heed to their own AA fire.
	mysite.freeserve.com /archie_bombercommand/l9512tlustory1941.html (6242 words)

	An Caislean B&B - Carrick-on-Suir - The People of Carrick-on-Suir
		Moreover, his stronghold in the fastnesses of the Comeraghs was well known to the authorities; yet he held it for years in their despite, while, on the contrary, his later imitators were for ever driven to seek new hiding-places.
		But besides this cavern appropriated as a dwelling, there is another cave, situated in the stupendous cliff of Coumshingaun, which the people called "Crotty's Stable," from the assertion that he utilised it as one of the out-offices for the livestock which his band captured in the lowlands till they could be profitably disposed of.
		Still another memento of the famous outlaw, set down in the Ordnance map as "Crotty's Rock," is an isolated knoll on which stands three large perpendicular stones, and which is situated a short distance to the east of the rath of Croagh, and north of the modern church of Kilrossanty.
	homepage.eircom.net /~ancaislean/carrick_people.html (8056 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		{{disambig}} The '''Far East Command''' was a military regional division of the British military.
		It was also a historical command of the United States military.
		There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Far East Command.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Far_East_Command.html (106 words)

	Aviation History
		WWII FP 1976 1940 diary of Air Vice Marshal Sandy Johnstone, then commander of the 602nd Squadron of Sptifires.
		PD FP 1996 The story of U.S. Air Force Special Operations from their beginning during World War II to the present.
		WWII FP 1977 Chronicles the British Fleet Air Arm's Swordfish aircraft, nicknamed "the Stringbags," and the heroic actions of the small band of men who flew them in World War II.
	www.bazillionbooks.com /aviationhistory.html (2878 words)

	Global Network - Space Alert Newsletter #16
		John Jumper, Air Force Chief of Staff opens the new doctrine with the statement that: "Counterspace operations are critical to success in modern warfare.
		An article that recently appeared in an Air Force Research Lab in-house publication says that "Researchers are developing a reliable and versatile high-powered, space-based laser." Funding for the project appears to be hidden in a Small Business Innovation budget category.
		Not to be outdone, the Air Force Space Command in October 2004 signed a Memo of Understanding (MOU) with a consortium of universities that will support the space command¹s educational and research needs.
	www.space4peace.org /newsletter/gnnews16.htm (11208 words)

	MBR: Internet Bookwatch, May 2002
		American Volunteers In The RAF 1937-1943 is the first volume in an impressive "American Eagles" series of books about American fighter pilots and the aircraft they flew in Europe during the Second World War.
		Very highly recommended viewing, St. Clare Of Assisi is enhanced with medieval harmonies and exquisite photography of the sacred places in and around Assisi that characterize the life of this fascinating, influential, self-effacing woman who chose to live a life of prayer and dedication in accordance with the most self-less and self-sacrificing precepts of Christianity.
		When Commander Jake discovers mysteries surrounding a sick soldier's murder, he teams up with beautiful agent Kaci to probe the depths of a program which has caused the death of an entire Mexican village, and which threatens the world.
	www.midwestbookreview.com /ibw/may_02.htm (15371 words)

	Politics
		Watergate: Some 25 years have passed since the bungled break-in at the Watergate hotel, a so-called "third-rate burglary," triggered a first-rate national crisis whose consequences still color the nation's politics.
		But today, 14 months later, the mission is in shambles, scarred by rising Iraqi popular discontent, continued attacks against US forces, infiltration of foreign fighters, mounting civil strife, and no credible sense of direction." These are the views of General Wesley Clark, one of the America’s most distinguished retired military officers.
		During his thirty-three years of service in the United States Army, he held numerous staff and command positions, served in Vietnam, and rose to the rank of 4-star general and NATO Supreme Allied Commander.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REVpolitics.htm (9607 words)

	AVIATION BOOKS AEROPLANE BOOKS - WW 2 AIRCRAFT WW II AIRPLANES
		HELL OF A BOMB, A, Flower, Stephen, Tempus, 2002, new, soft cover, see photo, Barnes Wallis' most famous bomb is the Dambuster used with great effect in 1943, but he also helped develop three others, photos, 320 pgs.
		THE MEMOIRS OF A CHECKERTAIL ACE, Green, Herschel, Schiffer, 1996, new, see photo, pilots memoir, a leading U.S. 15th Air Force Ace with 18 victories, flew the P-40, P-47 Thunderbolt & P-5l Mustang during his tours of duty in Europe & the Mediterranean with the 325th FG, many photos, 192 pgs.
		HIDDEN VICTORY, Air Vice-Marshal A.G. Dugeon, Tempus, 2000, new, soft cover, see photo, Air Battle of Habbaniya, May 1941, RAF air victory defended a flight training school in Iraq, loosing this battle would have resulted of severe consequences of the German's getting foothold in Iraq, photos,
	www.aeroplanebooks.com /ww2_pg8.htm (1558 words)

	Location Register pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		; Senior Air Staff Officer, Headquarters, 43 Group, RAF 1949-1950; Air Officer Commanding 43 Group, RAF 1950-1951; Director of Signals, Policy, Air Ministry 1952-1953; Imperial Defence College 1954
		; Senior Air Staff Officer, Headquarters, 90 Signals Group, RAF Medmenham 1955-1958; Director General of Technical Services, Air Ministry 1958-1961; Air Officer in charge of Administration, Maintenance Command, RAF 1961-1963; retired 1963
		No reply to approach letter to family in 1982 No papers have been traced
	www.kcl.ac.uk /lhcma/locreg/CHAPMAN.html (139 words)

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