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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became 11 Group. 11 Sector became Sector South and No. 12 Sector RAF was absorbed and became Sector North. Group Headquarters shifted to RAF Bentley Priory...
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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. 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. 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. 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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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. 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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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. 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. 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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Intelligence Group of Joint Forces Command. Other units include the RAF Aerial Erector School, No. 54 Signals Unit and No. 591 Signals Unit. Formerly an RAF training...
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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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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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1932 and renamed Fighter Command on 1 May 1936. On 23 February 1940, No. 60 Group RAF was established within Fighter Command to control Chain Home radar...
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No. 11 Group RAF transferring to No. 12 Group RAF of Fighter Command. No. 6 OTU was re-numbered in November 1940 to No. 56 OTU, and remained at RAF Sutton...
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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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ISBN 0-7100-9339-X. "No. 4 Group". Archived from the original on 28 March 2010. Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation - RAF Home Commands formed...
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before. No. 74 (F) Squadron relocated to RAF Leuchars in Scotland on 2 March 1964. No. 226 Operational Conversion Unit (OCU) arrived at the base on 12 April...
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RAF Watnall was the operational headquarters of No. 12 Group, RAF Fighter Command at Watnall in Nottinghamshire, England. The station was established...
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Number 12 Squadron, also known as No. 12 (Bomber) Squadron and occasionally as No. XII Squadron, is a flying squadron of the Royal Air Force (RAF). The...
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Britain. Leigh-Mallory replaced Park at No. 11 (Fighter) Group and Sholto Douglas replaced Dowding as head of RAF Fighter Command. In 1942, Leigh-Mallory...
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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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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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Eagle Squadrons (redirect from RAF Eagle Squadrons)
intensity of operations stepped up with a move into No 11 Group of Fighter Command, being based at RAF North Weald by June 1941. On June 21, 1941, 22 year-old...
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No. 9 Group at RAF Barton Hall, No. 11 Group RAF at RAF Uxbridge, No. 12 Group RAF at RAF Watnall, No. 13 Group RAF at RAF Newcastle and No. 14 Group...
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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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raids in response to the increasing effectiveness of the Royal Air Force's (RAF) area bombing offensive against German targets as a result of the area bombing...
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