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...
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on 1 May 1936 as No. 11 (Fighter) Group by renaming Fighting Area. On 14 July 1936, 11 Group became the first RAF Fighter Command Group responsible for...
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No. 3 Group RAF (3 Gp) of the Royal Air Force was an RAF group first active in 1918, again between 1923 and 1926, then as part of RAF Bomber Command from...
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No. 12 Group RAF (12 Gp) of the Royal Air Force was a group, a military formation, that existed over two separate periods, namely the end of the First...
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No. 1 Group of the Royal Air Force is one of the two operations groups in RAF Air Command. Today, the group is referred to as the Air Combat Group, as...
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No. 10 Group RAF (10 Gp) was a former operations group of the Royal Air Force which participated in the Second World War. It was formed on 1 April 1918...
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No. 100 (Bomber Support) Group was a special duties group within RAF Bomber Command. The group was formed on 11 November 1943 to consolidate the increasingly...
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No. 22 Group Royal Air Force (22 Gp) is one of six groups currently active in the Royal Air Force (RAF), falling under the responsibility of Deputy Commander-in-Chief...
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Headquarters Air Command at RAF High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. No. 2 Group was originally formed as No. 2 (Training) Group on 1 April 1918 at Oxford....
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No. 8 Group RAF (8 Gp) was a Royal Air Force group which existed during the final year of the First World War and during the Second World War. No. 8 Group...
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No. 13 Group RAF (13 Gp) was a group in the Royal Air Force for various periods in the 20th century. It is most famous for having the responsibility for...
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No. 4 Group RAF (4Gp) was a Royal Air Force group, originally formed in the First World War, and reformed in the wake of the Second World War, mostly...
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No. 9 Group RAF (9 Gp) was a group of the Royal Air Force, which existed over two separate periods, initially at the end of the First World War, and latterly...
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No. 38 Group RAF was a group of the Royal Air Force which disbanded on 31 December 2020. It was formed on 6 November 1943 from the former 38 Wing with...
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RAF Swinderby in 1940, being used by 300 and 301 Polish squadrons and later, 1661 HCU of No. 5 Group. The station was declared inactive in 1959. RAF Winthorpe...
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list of Royal Air Force groups is an overview of all groups, current and former, of the Royal Air Force (RAF). An air force group is a high-level controlling...
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No. 46 Group RAF was a group of the Royal Air Force. No. 46 Group was formed on 17 January 1944 within RAF Transport Command. The Headquarters was at The...
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Commanding for No. 15 Group. Around this time the Group Communications Flight continued at RAF Hooton Park. The Coastal Command Development Unit RAF, which was...
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1943 when all controlled units were moved to No. 9 Group. The group was reformed on 1 January 1952 at RAF Watnall, in Nottinghamshire to control all training...
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Squadron RAF No. 35 Squadron RAF No. 44 Gliding School RAF (July 1951 – July 1955) No. 98 Squadron RAF No. 115 Squadron RAF No. 149 Squadron RAF No. 204 Advanced...
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Arthur Harris (redirect from Arthur Harris (RAF officer))
the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, Harris took command of No. 5 Group RAF in England, and in February 1942 was appointed head of Bomber Command...
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on film as Air Vice-Marshal The Honourable Ralph Cochrane AFC RAF, AOC, No. 5 Group RAF in The Dam Busters (1955). He is perhaps best remembered for his...
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No. 14 Group RAF (14 Gp) was the title of several Royal Air Force groups, including a group responsible for anti-submarine activity from 1918 to 1919...
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on 1 April 1918 in No. 4 Area RAF. It was transferred to North-Eastern Area RAF on 8 May 1918. Disbanded 18 October 1919. The group was reformed on 1 September...
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on 26 April 1920 at RAF Shotwick and redesignated No. 5 Service Flying Training School from 3 September 1939, part of No. 23 Group. It used a variety of...
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No. 6 Group RAF. Air Commodore Charles Rumney Samson led No. 6 Group from 1924 to 1926. In 1936, No. 1 (Air Defence) Group RAF, a group of auxiliary...
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No. 40 Group RAF is a former Royal Air Force Maintenance group that was operational from 1 January 1939, throughout the Second World War and into the Cold...
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group controlled: RAF Wahn No. 83 Group Communications Flight No. 68 Squadron RAF - Meteor No. 87 Squadron RAF - Meteor RAF Celle No. 16 Squadron RAF...
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of farmland and woods were cleared to create the new airfield for No. 5 Group RAF, Bomber Command in Grantham. The station was planned as a Class A airfield...
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No. 7 Group RAF (7 Gp) of the Royal Air Force was an RAF group active in the latter part of the First World War, during the 1920s and also in the Second...
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