John 'Cat's Eyes' Cunningham CBE, DSO & Two Bars, DFC & Bar, AE (27 July 1917 – 21 July 2002) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) night fighter ace during the...
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John Cunningham (VC 1916) (1897–1941), East Yorkshire Regiment John Cunningham (RAF officer) (1917–2002), RAF night fighter ace Sir John Cunningham,...
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Frank Halford, engine designer Hubert Broad John Cunningham (RAF officer) Geoffrey de Havilland Jr. John de Havilland Pat Fillingham Bert Hinkler Campbell...
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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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suit bearing his name. John Cunningham (RAF officer) (Final Rank Group Captain), CBE, DSO & Two Bars, DFC & Bar, AE – John Cunningham tested the prototype...
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John Kilmartin, OBE, DFC (8 July 1913–1 October 1998) was an Irish flying ace of the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War and the postwar...
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after university Cunningham joined the Royal Air Force in 2000; it had been his boyhood dream to fly with the Red Arrows, the RAF's aerobatic display...
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Royal Air Force College Cranwell (redirect from RAF College)
academy which provides initial training to all RAF personnel who are preparing to become commissioned officers. The College also provides initial training...
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General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, GCMG, KCB, DSO, MC (1 May 1887 – 30 January 1983), was a senior officer of the British Army noted for his victories...
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Group RAF of Bomber Command at RAF Mildenhall. On 1 October 1963 he was promoted to air vice marshal and served as air officer commanding (AOC) RAF Middle...
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John Webster, DFC (1916 – 5 September 1940) was a British flying ace who served with the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. He was credited...
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Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (category Dorset Regiment officers)
(RAF) during the inter-war years when he served in Turkey, Great Britain and the Far East. During World War II, as Air Officer Commanding of the RAF Middle...
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Dundas was commissioned as a pilot officer in No. 609 Squadron RAF, a Royal Auxiliary Air Force squadron. Hugh and John's godfather had set up the unit. At...
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to serve in the RAF in the postwar period. Born in Bradford, Topham joined the RAF in early 1939 and was commissioned as a pilot officer by the end of the...
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process George Denholm, RAF fighter pilot. David Howard, 7th Earl of Effingham, naval officer Robert Gordon, RAF officer Sandy Gunn, RAF photo reconnaissance...
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John Ellis CBE, DFC & Bar (28 February 1917 – 19 November 2001) was a British flying ace of the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. He was...
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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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Chuikov Gareth Clayton (RAF officer) William T. Clement Henry Crowe (RAF officer) Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope Maj. Gen. Marion...
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Dr Leslie Bennet Craigie Cunningham FRSE OBE (1895–31 August 1946) was a 20th-century Scottish statistician and physicist known for his expertise on air...
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(1909–15 December 1941) was a British flying ace of the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. He is credited with the destruction of fifteen...
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Deciding on a career in the Royal Air Force (RAF), he commenced initial officer training as a flight cadet at the RAF's College Cranwell in September the same...
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Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. He is credited with the destruction of twelve aircraft. From Hampstead, Hodgkinson joined the RAF in 1932,...
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RAF stations Tangmere and Northolt. Ranked air commodore at the outbreak of World War II, he was Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder's Deputy Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief...
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air." RAF Fighter Command operated under Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding with Air Commodore A D John Cunningham as his Senior Air Staff Officer (SASO)...
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Newton-John (5 March 1914 – 3 July 1992) was a Welsh–Australian university administrator, professor of German literature, intelligence officer, and Wing...
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in the officers' mess was fellow Pilot Officer Michael Henry Le Bas (later Air Vice-Marshal M. H. Le Bas, Air Officer Commanding No. 1 Group RAF), with...
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No. 604 Squadron RAuxAF (redirect from No. 604 (County of Middlesex) Squadron RAF)
to RAF Northolt in January 1940. By May 1940, the squadron had moved to RAF Manston. During the squadron's stay at RAF Manston that Flying Officer Alistair...
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Jimmy Rawnsley (category Royal Air Force officers)
1941. In January 1943, Rawnsley transferred to No. 85 Squadron RAF along with Cunningham. They now flew a Mosquito and within the year had downed four...
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November 1944) was a British flying ace who served with the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. He was credited with having shot down at least...
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Red Arrows (redirect from RAF Red Arrows Display Team)
8 November 2011 (2011-11-08) Pilot Flt Lt Sean Cunningham was ejected from his aircraft while it was on the ground at RAF Scampton and subsequently died from his...
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