• later a senior officer in the Royal Air Force during World War II. Hunter was the older of the two sons of Henry Charles Vicars Hunter, JP, and the Honourable...
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  • Henry Hunter may refer to: Henry Hunter (RAF officer) (1893–1966) Henry Hunter (actor), American actor Henry Hunter (Home and Away), a fictional character...
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  • Harold Hunter (1926–2013), American basketball coach and player Heather Hunter (born 1969), American hip hop artist Henry Hunter (RAF officer) (1893–1966)...
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    Royal Air Force (redirect from RAF stations)
    The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards...
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    RAF Turnhouse near Edinburgh. The station was home to the administrative offices of the senior Royal Navy and RAF officers in Scotland. Flag Officer Scotland...
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  • scenes in the film were shot at RAF Uxbridge, where there was a wartime operations room. "Angels One Five" refers to RAF radio procedure from the Second...
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  • the UK as Officer Commanding No. 229 Operational Conversion Unit RAF at RAF Chivenor and later No. 228 Operational Conversion Unit RAF at RAF Coningsby...
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  • his disability.[citation needed] Hunter was born in London, the younger of the two sons of Henry Charles Vicars Hunter, JP, and the Honourable Florence...
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    F.4s from RAF Tangmere, Sussex. The squadron moved to RAF Leuchars, Fife, in 1950 and in 1954 became the first to receive the Hawker Hunter F.1, replacing...
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    Philip Christison Vasily Chuikov Gareth Clayton (RAF officer) William T. Clement Henry Crowe (RAF officer) Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of...
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    a Hawker Hurricane she was delivering from RAF Prestwick. Group Captain H. J. F. Hunter, commanding officer in the 1930s Rory Underwood, served as a pilot...
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    Kindley Field, Bermuda; RAF Burtonwood, England, with forward basing at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Bermuda for a short time, and Hunter Air Force Base, Georgia...
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    Bars, DFC & Bar, AE (27 July 1917 – 21 July 2002) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) night fighter ace during the Second World War and a test pilot. During the...
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  • commission in the RAF on 1 October 1953, in the rank of flying officer. As a junior officer, Hine flew the Gloster Meteor and then the Hawker Hunter. He was promoted...
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    2 in December 1970, when they received XV485 at RAF Brüggen. The Hunter No. II (AC) Squadron at RAF Gütersloh continued to operate in tandem with the...
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    junior officers at Kenley in 1930, while serving in No. 23 Squadron RAF. Bader was given the post of the Fighter Leader's School commanding officer. He received...
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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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    David Craig, Baron Craig of Radley (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    No. 247 squadron at RAF Odiham which was converting from Meteors to Hunters. After attending the guided weapons course at the RAF Technical College at...
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  • Sloan (58565), RAF. Cyril William Sweetman (162018), RAF. Robert James Trace (197610), RAFRO. Flying Officer William Henry Thick (2235182), RAF. Master Pilot...
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    as fighter controller during World War II. Jeffrey Quill (1913–1996): RAF officer and Spitfire test pilot (Vickers-Armstrongs) who served five months with...
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    RAF Masirah (or Royal Air Force Masirah), was an airfield located on the northern tip of Masirah Island, Oman. The base was built during 1943 as a staging...
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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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    this time, the RAF wished to replace the English Electric Canberra light bomber in the long-range interdictor role, and the Hawker Hunter in the close air...
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  • 1951 flying Vampires initially from RAF Fassberg and then from RAF Jever in Germany. Promoted to flying officer on 13 December 1951, Williamson volunteered...
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    to the south and known as RAF Elgin, opened in June 1940. One officer and two aircrew were killed on 26 October 1940 when RAF Lossiemouth was attacked...
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    Twelve O'Clock High (category Films directed by Henry King)
    Locations for creating the bomber airfield at the fictional RAF Archbury were scouted by director Henry King, flying his own Beech Bonanza some 16,000 miles...
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  • Mike Snelling (category Royal Air Force officers)
    on the Gnat T Mk 1. After a tour at RAF Valley in Anglesey, he joined No.229 OCU at RAF Chivenor for Hawker Hunter conversion. He then served as a DFGA...
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  • "prisoner of war". For details of RAF rank abbreviations, see RAF Commissioned Officer Ranks and RAF Non-Commissioned Officer Ranks. For details of FAA rank...
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  • February 2008. "Henry Treece - Poems" (PDF). Poemhunter.com. "Henry Treece: Teacher, Writer, Poet ... and Intelligence Officer at RAF Dunholme Lodge"...
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    (1957) – Defense Attorney (uncredited) Kiss Them for Me (1957) – Peters, RAF Pilot (uncredited) Witness for the Prosecution (1957) – Barrister Reading...
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