RAF Coastal Command was a formation within the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was founded in 1936, when the RAF was restructured into Fighter, Bomber and Coastal...
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Signals Command was absorbed on 1 January 1969, Coastal Command was absorbed on 28 November 1969, becoming No. 18 Group RAF. The former component Coastal Command...
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after first working with RAF Coastal Command, in 1941 and then early in 1942 to the Admiralty. Blackett's team at Coastal Command's Operational Research Section...
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RAF Fighter Command was one of the commands of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1936 to allow more specialised control of fighter aircraft. It served...
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Warfare Development Unit RAF (ASWDU) was a research and development unit of the Royal Air Force, within RAF Coastal Command, it was operational from December...
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Coastal Command was a formation within the Royal Air Force (RAF). Founded in 1936, it was to act as the RAF maritime arm, after the Fleet Air Arm became...
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under Coastal Command, Transport Command and Fighter Command of the Royal Air Force. RAF Talbenny opened as a No. 19 Group RAF, RAF Coastal Command station...
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Coastal Command Anti U-Boat Devices School RAF was a training unit of the Royal Air Force and part of RAF Coastal Command. The unit was established during...
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period. It opened in the 1939, for RAF Coastal Command. The station was transferred to RAF Technical Training Command in 1942 and closed in 1945. The First...
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part of RAF Coastal Command. The unit was established during April 1940 by the redesignating of an existing RAF Coastal Command unit, and disbanded during...
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RAF Bomber Command controlled the Royal Air Force's bomber forces from 1936 to 1968. Along with the United States Army Air Forces, it played the central...
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Royal Air Force signals between the controls at RAF Coastal Command stations: RAF Pembroke Dock, and RAF Carew Cheriton, and their respective aircraft....
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February 1944, as a satellite station for the nearby RAF St Davids, under No. 19 Group, RAF Coastal Command, with No 517 Meteorological Squadron moving in the...
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the site was taken over by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in May 1940 for use as a RAF Coastal Command Station. After the Second World War, the station was...
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List of Royal Air Force Operational Training Units (redirect from No. 11 Operational Training Unit RAF)
or roles. No. 1 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF (1 (C)OTU) The Unit was formed in 1940 as part of RAF Coastal Command at RAF Silloth for training...
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in purely RAF-context in 1936 when Bomber Command, Fighter Command, Coastal Command and Training Command were formed. Since that time the RAF has made...
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Second World War. The region was beyond the reach of land-based RAF Coastal Command antisubmarine (A/S) aircraft. This resulted in heavy merchant shipping...
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Bristol Beaufighter (section Coastal Command)
strike/ground attack aircraft, RAF Coastal Command having operated the largest number of Beaufighters amongst all other commands at one point. The Royal Australian...
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RAF Coastal Command. The unit was established during June 1942 and disbanded during August 1944. No. 9 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF formed on...
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submarines by RAF Coastal Command. The unit left RAF Templeton in December 1943, moving to RAF St Athan where it was renamed No. 12 Radio School RAF. 'A' Flight...
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Squadron RAF (Coastal Command) No. 59 Squadron RAF (Coastal Command) No. 70 Squadron RAF (Middle East) No. 86 Squadron RAF (Coastal Command) No. 99 Squadron...
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Coastal Command. The unit was established during August 1941 and disbanded during August 1945. No. 5 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF formed on...
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RNAS Dale (HMS Goldcrest) (redirect from RAF Dale)
as part of RAF Coastal Command. It departed for RAF Docking in March 1943. The Coastal Command Development Unit RAF moved to Dale, from RAF Tain. The CCDU...
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battle of RAF Coastal Command throughout the Second World War in the European Theatre of World War II. No. 15 Group RAF (GR), under command of Air Commodore...
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Refresher Flying Unit RAF which moved from RAF Haverfordwest and stayed between October 1945 and March 1945 No. 7 (Coastal) OTU flying Vickers Wellingtons between...
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RAF Ferry Command was the secretive Royal Air Force command formed on 20 July 1941 to ferry urgently needed aircraft from their place of manufacture in...
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– April 1970) Coastal Command Development Unit RAF (December 1941) Satellite airfield of the Combined Anti-Submarine Tactical School RAF (1943) General...
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132 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF, was a training unit of the Royal Air Force, within No. 17 Group RAF, part of RAF Coastal Command. The unit...
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the destructive force of Bomber Command. He fended off attempts by the Royal Navy to take command over RAF Coastal Command, and resisted attempts by the...
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units would not exist in Newfoundland until June. Convoys relied on RAF Coastal Command aircraft operating from Northern Ireland and Iceland. The aircraft...
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