RAF Coastal Area was a formation within the Royal Air Force (RAF). Founded in 1919, it was to act as the RAF's premier maritime arm. It was replaced by...
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RAF Coastal Command was a formation within the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was founded in 1936, when the RAF was restructured into Fighter, Bomber and Coastal...
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RNAS Donibristle (HMS Merlin) (redirect from RAF Donibristle)
Donibristle became a RAF Station between 1918 and 1939 operated by the Fleet Air Arm as part of RAF Coastal Area and later Coastal Command. During the...
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(Operations) Group RAF until 31 March 1922 when it was disbanded into RAF Coastal Area. It was reformed as No. 29 (Flying Training) Group within RAF Flying Training...
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RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus) (redirect from RAF Lee-on-Solent)
Lee-on-Solent became HQ RAF Coastal Area, and a major rebuilding programme ensued. On 14 July 1936, an expanded RAF Coastal Area became RAF Coastal Command, with...
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submarines by RAF Coastal Command. The unit left RAF Templeton in December 1943, moving to RAF St Athan where it was renamed No. 12 Radio School RAF. 'A' Flight...
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Royal Air Force St Eval or RAF St Eval was a Royal Air Force station for the RAF Coastal Command, southwest of Padstow in Cornwall, England, UK. St Eval's...
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School RAF (May 1945 - January 1948) No. 254 Squadron RAF Coastal Command Flying Instructors School RAF (June - October 1945) became Coastal Command...
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July 1947. In 1951, it reopened as an RAF Coastal Command air base for the Air-Sea Warfare Development Unit RAF (ASWDU) where trials of new electronic...
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wartime RAF airfields in Norfolk and its position, just 3.3 miles (5.3 km) from the North Sea at Blakeney, made it a suitable site for RAF Coastal Command...
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RAF Fighter Command was one of the commands of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1936 to allow more specialised control of fighter aircraft. It served...
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Coastal Command was a formation within the Royal Air Force (RAF). Founded in 1936, it was to act as the RAF maritime arm, after the Fleet Air Arm became...
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Operation Husky order of battle (section RAF Gibraltar)
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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Air Service. This negotiation led to the creation of RAF Coastal Area the predecessor of RAF Coastal Command to deal with its relationship with the Navy...
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Battle of Britain (section RAF strategy)
Battalion numbers for 29 June 1940. 544 aircrew (RAF Fighter Command), 718 (RAF Bomber Command), 280 (RAF Coastal Command) killed 1,220 fighters (753 Hurricane...
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Frank William Foster (section RAF career)
HMS Argus. During this period, he was in No. 205 Squadron RAF (Coastal Area, No.9 Group), based out of RAF Leuchars. In 1927, trouble flared up on the North-West...
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transferred to Coastal Command. Later a joint RN/RAF Area Combined Headquarters was formed which commenced operations in early 1942. RAF North Front opened...
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boats that followed between 1930 and 1950 owe much to Porte's work. RAF Coastal Area Transatlantic flight John Alcock - British commander of the first non-stop...
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construction of an airfield for RAF Coastal Command to use as a bomber operational training unit, was given for an area of fields between the villages...
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Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment at Martlesham Heath RAF Coastal Area "RNAS Felixstowe". WW1 Anti-invasion Defences and Home Defence Suffolk...
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List of former Royal Air Force stations (redirect from List of former RAF stations)
RAF. Barrass, M. B. (2015). "RAF Establishments – Greater London Area". Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation. Retrieved 12 May 2015. "RAF...
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List of Royal Air Force commands (redirect from List of RAF commands)
in purely RAF-context in 1936 when Bomber Command, Fighter Command, Coastal Command and Training Command were formed. Since that time the RAF has made...
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squadron was transferred from Bomber Command to Coastal Command to undertake maritime patrols. It moved to RAF Aldergrove in Northern Ireland on 28 April and...
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the Interwar period. It opened in the 1939, for RAF Coastal Command. The station was transferred to RAF Technical Training Command in 1942 and closed in...
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in the community of Solva. It opened in the late summer of 1943, for RAF Coastal Command. The station was put into a care and maintenance status in November...
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School RAF (August 1938 - November 1939) became No. 1 Air Observers Navigation School RAF (November 1939 - July 1941) 'D' Flight of No. 1 (Coastal) Operational...
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1930s, the site was taken over by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in May 1940 for use as a RAF Coastal Command Station. After the Second World War, the station...
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in Norfolk, England. It was a satellite airfield for the RAF Coastal Command station at RAF Bircham Newton and was mostly used for overflow from there...
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Group was initially formed on 1 April 1918 in No. 4 Area RAF. It was transferred to North-Eastern Area RAF on 8 May 1918. Disbanded 18 Oct 1919. The group...
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undefended area of the Atlantic Ocean during the Battle of the Atlantic in the Second World War. The region was beyond the reach of land-based RAF Coastal Command...
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