section, retaining his RAF commission. After leaving MI6, he emigrated to Canada in 1952, embarking on a business career. Stevens was born Georg Franz Hein...
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Richard Stevens DSO, DFC & Bar (1909–15 December 1941) was a British flying ace of the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. He is credited...
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Peter Stevens may refer to: Peter Stevens (car designer) (born 1945), British car designer Peter Stevens (Manitoba politician) Peter Stevens (RAF officer)...
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Battle of Britain (section RAF strategy)
military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom...
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Alick Charles Stevens, KBE, CB (31 July 1898 – 2 July 1987) was a Royal Air Force officer who became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at RAF Coastal Command...
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Stevens (2 September 1925 – 11 November 2006) was an English revue artist, character actor and voice artist credited professionally as Ronnie Stevens...
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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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Nasser handing over the flag". Getty Images. Retrieved 6 October 2024. Stevens, D. "RAF Shallufa". Retrieved 2024-09-04. "Middle Eastern Airfield Report Volume...
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– AOC, RAF Gibraltar, Feb 1944 to June 1944 Air Vice Marshal Alick Stevens – AOC, RAF Gibraltar, June 1944 to August 1945 No. 224 Squadron RAF (Disbanded)...
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British Aerospace Harrier II (redirect from RAF Harrier GR9A)
and landing (V/STOL) jet aircraft used previously by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and, between 2006 and 2010, the Royal Navy (RN). The aircraft was the latest...
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Squadron". RAF. Retrieved 18 February 2022. Ashworth, Chris (1989). Encyclopedia of Modern Royal Air Force Squadrons. Wellingborough, UK: Patrick Stevens Limited...
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Royal Air Force Lossiemouth or more commonly RAF Lossiemouth (IATA: LMO, ICAO: EGQS) is a military airfield located on the western edge of the town of...
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Royal Air Force Mona, or more simply RAF Mona, (ICAO: EGOQ) is a Royal Air Force station near Bodffordd on the island of Anglesey, Wales. It is primarily...
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from the original on January 1, 2021. Retrieved December 16, 2020. Casert, Raf (October 22, 2011). "Tintin has world premiere in Belgian hometown". Today...
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Royal Air Force College Cranwell (redirect from RAF College)
(RAFC) is the Royal Air Force academy which provides initial training to all RAF personnel who are preparing to become commissioned officers. The College...
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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 (Personnel)...
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the Royal Air Force. It currently operates the Boeing Poseidon MRA1 from RAF Lossiemouth, Moray. It is the only squadron affiliated with Guernsey, in...
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2005 it was employed in the maritime patrol role with the Nimrod MR.2 at RAF Kinloss, Moray. It was announced in December 2004 that 206 Squadron would...
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Prince George, Duke of Kent (section RAF career)
initially as a staff officer at RAF Training Command and then, from July 1941, as a staff officer in the Welfare Section of the RAF Inspector General's Staff...
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Royal Air Force Brize Norton or RAF Brize Norton (IATA: BZZ, ICAO: EGVN) is the largest station of the Royal Air Force. Situated in Oxfordshire, about...
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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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received the RAF's first Tornado GR.4, which it operated until reequipping with the Eurofighter Typhoon FGR.4 at its present home base of RAF Lossiemouth...
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Squadron RAF at RAF Cranage No. 229 Squadron RAF at RAF Speke No. 306 Polish Fighter Squadron at RAF Tern Hill No. 308 Polish Fighter Squadron at RAF Baginton...
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Douglas Bader (section Joining the RAF)
probables, one shared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damaged. Bader joined the RAF in 1928, and was commissioned in 1930. In December 1931, while attempting...
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The Squadron reformed at RAF Andover in January 1923 as a day bomber squadron equipped with Airco DH.9As, soon moving to RAF Bircham Newton in Norfolk...
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starring George Sanders, Marguerite Chapman and Onslow Stevens. The film's plot follows an R.A.F. officer who infiltrates the German high command by broadcasting...
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Port Stanley Airport (redirect from RAF Stanley)
airport in the islands with a paved runway. However, the military airbase at RAF Mount Pleasant, located to the west of Stanley, functions as the islands'...
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1915 – 30 January 2001), nicknamed "Johnnie", was an English Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot and flying ace who flew and fought during the Second World War. Johnson...
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Royal Air Force. Since November 2011, it has operated the BAE Hawk T2 from RAF Valley, Anglesey, Wales. The squadron provides weapons and tactics training...
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Luftwaffe, but the Spitfire captured the public's imagination as the main RAF fighter, in part because the Spitfire was generally a better fighter aircraft...
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