• Marshal Sir John Frederick Willis GBE, KCB, FRAeS (27 October 1937 – 9 January 2008) was a senior Royal Air Force officer. John Frederick Willis was born...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    Royal Air Force Fylingdales or more simply RAF Fylingdales is a Royal Air Force station on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England. Its motto is Vigilamus...
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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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  • 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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    The Red Army Faction (RAF, German: [ɛʁʔaːˈʔɛf] ; German: Rote Armee Fraktion, pronounced [ˌʁoː.tə aʁˈmeː fʁakˌt͡si̯oːn] ), also known as the Baader–Meinhof...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • RAF Seletar; No. 36 Squadron RAF – 6 × Vickers Vildebeest No. 100 Squadron RAF – 12 × Vickers Vildebeest No. 205 Squadron RAF – 3 × PBY Catalina RAF Tengah;...
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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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  • (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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  • 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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    department at the Ministry of Defence. He became Officer Commanding No. 18 Squadron at RAF Gütersloh and then RAF Acklington in 1966, flying the Westland Wessex...
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  • Royal Air Force officer. After training as a navigator, Peach commanded IX (Bomber) Squadron and then became Deputy Station Commander RAF Bruggen. He was...
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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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  • (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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  • 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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    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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    Members of the Red Army Faction (RAF) can be split up into three generations. The first (founding) generation existed from 1970 onwards. The second generation...
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  • Carter (David McCallum) – Flight Lieutenant Carter is a pugnacious young RAF officer who enjoys baiting the German guards and is very impatient to escape...
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    November 2010. Francillon 1979, p. 713. Willis 2007, p. 138. Knaack 1988, p. 480. Bowers 1989, p. 322. Willis 2007, pp. 138–139. Brown 1977, p. 80. Peacock...
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