• Dunkirk evacuation) No. 5 Wing was responsible for controlling radar units based in France. No. 5 Wing was a Signals Wing within the RAF Second Tactical Air...
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  • Rock Apes. No. 1 Armoured Car Company RAF No. 2 Armoured Car Company RAF No. 3 Armoured Car Company RAF No. 2702 Armoured Car Squadron RAF Interim redesignation...
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    at RAF Honington No. 2 Force Protection Wing - RAF Leeming No. 3 Force Protection Wing - RAF Marham No. 5 Force Protection Wing - RAF Lossiemouth No. 7...
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    runways of RAF Wittering cross the boundary between Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. Wittering's use as a military airfield dates back to 5 May 1916...
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    Royal Air Force Wing or more simply RAF Wing is a former Royal Air Force station, situated just west of the village of Wing, in the Aylesbury Vale district...
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    RAF on 1 April 1918 the squadron kept its numeral; No 1 Squadron of the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was displaced to become No. 201 Squadron RAF....
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  • included RAF Signals Command, which was later reduced to group status and incorporated into RAF Strike Command. Nos 26 and No. 60 Group RAF were established...
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    needed] No. 4626 (Aeromedical Evacuation) Squadron RAuxAF between 1986 and 1995. No. 5 Wing RAF Regiment between 1982 and 1990.[citation needed] No. II Squadron...
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    No. 5 Group RAF (5 Gp) was a Royal Air Force bomber group of the Second World War, led during the latter part (February 1943 – 1945) by AVM Sir Ralph Cochrane...
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    end of November the RAF party returned to Britain, less some signals staff; the wing was then disbanded. On 10 March 1944, 151 Wing was reformed in Iraq...
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  • Command), Jever (No. 122 Wing RAF), RAF Laarbruch (No. 34 Wing RAF), RAF Oldenburg (No. 124 Wing RAF), and RAF Wunstorf (No. 123 Wing RAF). No. 2 Group was...
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  • controlling No. 4 Squadron and No. 13 Squadron whilst itself being subordinate to 7 Group RAF. This establishment was short-lived and the wing was stood...
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    confusion with RAF Cardington in Bedfordshire. The station's first unit, No. 2 Flying Training School (No. 2 FTS) transferred from RAF Digby in Lincolnshire...
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    equipped with the Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 at RAF Lossiemouth, Moray, since reforming there on 12 January 2015. No. 2 Squadron's traditional army co-operation...
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    The Joint Special Forces Aviation Wing (JSFAW) is a Royal Air Force (RAF) and British Army joint service organisation that coordinates the provision of...
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  • Protection WingRAF Marham No 5 Force Protection WingRAF Lossiemouth No 7 Force Protection WingRAF Coningsby No. 20 Wing RAF Regiment – RAF Honington...
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  • Fifth wing or 5th wing may refer to: No. 5 Wing RAF, originally established as the Fifth Wing of the Royal Flying Corps, a Royal Flying Corps wing during...
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    Imagery Intelligence Wing (TIW) at RAF Marham, No. 54 Signals Unit at RAF Digby, and No. 5 (AC) Squadron. Waddington is home to the wing headquarters. Various...
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    the home of the deployable RAF communications cadre (No. 90 Signals Unit RAF) and the home of No. 135 Expeditionary Air Wing. The area at the extreme western...
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    Squadron RAuxAF Regiment No. 7 RAF Police Squadron RAF Lossiemouth No. 5 Force Protection Wing Headquarters No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment No. 603 (City of Edinburgh)...
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    and is currently the home of the 100th Air Refueling Wing (100 ARW). During the Second World War, RAF Bomber Command used the station for operational combat...
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    No. 303 Squadron RAF, also known as the 303rd "Tadeusz Kościuszko Warsaw" Fighter Squadron, was one of two Polish squadrons that fought during the Battle...
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    Support Wing. Retrieved 13 February 2019. Falconer, J (2012). RAF Airfields of World War 2. UK: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85780-349-5. Jefford...
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  • No. 137 Wing RAF is a former Royal Air Force wing that was operational during the Second World War and the early Cold War. The unit was previously No...
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    700 crew. All three RAF attacks on Tirpitz were led by Wing Commander J. B. "Willy" Tait, who had succeeded Cheshire as CO of No. 617 Squadron in July...
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    crew members. No. 5 Squadron itself was disbanded on 7 October 1965 at RAF Geilenkirchen. The squadron reformed as No V (AC) Squadron at RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire...
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    Lossiemouth including No. 5 Force Protection Wing and an RAF Mountain Rescue Service team. The airfield opened in 1939 and was operated by the RAF, predominantly...
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    Squadron RAF No. 113 Squadron RAF No. 204 Advanced Flying School RAF No. 241 Operational Conversion Unit RAF No. 283 (Airborne Forces) Wing RAF No. 295 Squadron...
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    at RAF Akrotiri. No. 2 Group (Air Combat Support) RAF No. 84 Squadron – Puma HC2 No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group RAF No. 903 Expeditionary Air Wing Operation...
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  • No. 24 Squadron (also known as No. XXIV Squadron) of the Royal Air Force is the Air Mobility Operational Conversion Unit (AM OCU). Based at RAF Brize...
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