• Sir John Frederick Willis (27 October 1937 – 9 January 2008) was a senior Royal Air Force officer. John Frederick Willis was born in London and educated...
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  • British judge John Willis (RAF officer) (1937–2008), Royal Air Force officer John Harlan Willis (1921–1945), U.S. Navy hospital corpsman John Willis (bishop)...
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  • Marshal Sir John Thomson 5 Oct 1992 - Air Chief Marshal Sir John Willis List of Royal Air Force commands Royal Air Force, History of RAF Brampton, accessed...
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  • Charles John Thomson, GCB, CBE, AFC (7 June 1941 – 10 July 1994), usually Sir John Thomson, was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force (RAF). Educated...
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  • Scatliffe John Shirley (sailor) Keith Thomas (sailor) Robin Tattersall Willis Todman Mario Todman Ralston Varlack Samuel Hodge, VC Tony Snell (RAF officer), DSO...
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    John Randall Daniel "Bob" Braham, DSO & Two Bars, DFC & Two Bars, AFC, CD (6 April 1920 – 7 February 1974) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) night fighter pilot...
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    Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion, pronounced [ˌʁoːtə ʔaʁˈmeː fʁakˌtsi̯oːn] ; RAF [ˌɛʁʔaːˈʔɛf] ), also known as the Baader–Meinhof Group or Baader–Meinhof...
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  • was an acting wing commander. He became Commanding Officer of RAF Biggin Hill in 1955 and of RAF Middleton St. George in 1957. In 1958 he took charge...
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  • Squadron RAF No. 324 Wing RAF, Spitfires No. 43 Squadron RAF No. 72 Squadron RAF No. 93 Squadron RAF No. 111 Squadron RAF No. 243 Squadron RAF 57th Fighter...
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    Royal Air Force Fylingdales (RAF Fylingdales) is a Royal Air Force station on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England. Its motto is Vigilamus ("We...
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  • disbanded on either 25 May 1945 or on 25 June 1945 at RAF Langham, the appointment of S/Ldr. Willis pointing to the latter. rafcommands Bowyer & Rawlings...
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    Willis Aeroplane December 2007, p. 57. Willis Aeroplane December 2007, p. 58. Willis Aeroplane December 2007, pp. 58–59. Thomas 2007, p. 17. Willis Aeroplane...
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  • three inmates Dick Lorraine, John 'Bosun' Crisp, and the 'Medium Sized Man', Flt Lt Dominic Bruce OBE MC AFM KSG MA RAF attempted to escape using the...
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  • First World War "Blondie" – Arnold Walker, RAF pilot Herbert Hasler, Second World War Royal Marines officer "Blood" – J. A. L. Caunter, British general...
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  • entered the RAF on a National Service commission as an acting pilot officer on probation on 22 March 1951, and was regraded as a pilot officer on 6 February...
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    Squadron RAF No. 15 Squadron RAF No. 35 Squadron RAF No. 40 Squadron RAF No. 52 Squadron RAF No. 63 Squadron RAF No. 88 Squadron RAF No. 98 Squadron RAF No...
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  • (John Henry Williams, 1886–1953), Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross John Lloyd Williams (RAF officer) (1894–?), World War I fighter ace Sir John William...
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  • deemed to have been under the control of RAF Fighter Command. In 1955 Flt Lt John Holloway, a serving RAF officer, began a personal challenge to compile...
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    subsequent aircraft. It had failed to interest the RAF as a combat aircraft at that time, but officers did issue encouragement of the development of a similar...
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  • (1977, TV movie) as Geoffrey Moore A Bridge Too Far (1977) as R.A.F. Briefing Officer East of Elephant Rock (1977) as Harry Rawlins Leopard in the Snow...
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  • four-star officer rank and currently the highest rank to which RAF officers may be promoted to in a professional capacity. Throughout the history of the RAF there...
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  • army officer and stockbroker, member of the House of Lords (1974–1999). Sir Clive Johnstone, 60, British Royal Navy officer. 14 May Owen John Thomas...
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  • Manchester Linzi Melanie Neal – Community Development Officer, RAF Odiham. For services to RAF Personnel and their Families Doris Anita Neil – For services...
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  • 7 October 1944, he was promoted to flying officer (war substantive). Evans was one of the first RAF officers to enter Bergen-Belsen concentration camp...
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  • cinematographer.[when?] T. E. Lawrence, World War I British Army officer, archaeologist, Arabist, RAF aircraftsman, and writer, popularly known as "Lawrence of...
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    agreement for the succeeding governance. The NLF then seized power. Willis, John M. (2009). "Making Yemen Indian: Rewriting the Boundaries of Imperial...
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  • pilots were not officers; the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, with Squadron Leader Paul Day; the RAF Hawker Fury entered...
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    Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (category Royal Scots Greys officers)
    Commodore, of the RAF Leuchars 15 June 1985 – 30 June 1996: Honorary Air Vice Marshal RAF 1 July 1996: Honorary Air Chief Marshal RAF HRH The Duke of Kent;...
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  • (1914–2000), WW2 RAF flying Ace John Lilburne 'Free-born John', civil war figure Alan Parnaby (1916–1974), cricketer and British Army officer Ernest Vaux (1865–1925)...
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    RAF Twinwood Farm to Paris. The plane disappeared while flying over the English Channel. "C'mon you guys! Let's get these guns off the beach." — John...
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