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 operated...

Personnel and Training Command to form the single Air Command. It latterly consisted of two formations – No. 1 Group RAF and No. 2 Group RAF. The last Commander-in-Chief...

renaming Fighting Area. On 14 July 1936, 11 Group became the first RAF Fighter Command Group responsible for the air-defence of southern England, including...

senior officer in the Royal Air Force. He was Air Officer Commanding RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain and is generally credited with playing...

of RAF Fighter Command, "I hesitate to say that the outcome of the Battle (of Britain) would have been the same." No. 303 Squadron was based at RAF Northolt...

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...

October 1939 it was taken over by RAF Fighter Command and the Supermarine Spitfire I's of 72 squadron arrived from RAF Church Fenton. During the Battle...

against England") to launch the air assault. The essential target was RAF Fighter Command. The service's destruction would deny the British their air superiority...

Alfred Earle 9 November 1959 Air Vice-Marshal Harold John Maguire RAF Fighter Command Battle of Britain List of Battle of Britain airfields List of Battle...

recommendations that the RAF take control of metropolitan air defence, until 1936 when it became RAF Fighter Command. The ADGB was created as a command in 1925 as a...

the 20 June 1940, the airfield was transferred to No. 10 Group RAF of RAF Fighter Command. Pembrey was used throughout the Battle of Britain to rest squadrons...

RAF Bomber Command controlled the Royal Air Force's bomber forces from 1936 to 1968. Along with the United States Army Air Forces, it played the central...

Northern Ireland. It was a satellite to the RAF Fighter Command airfield at Ballyhalbert on the Ards Peninsula. RAF Ballyhalbert opened officially on 28 June...

RAF Bentley Priory was a non-flying Royal Air Force station near Stanmore in the London Borough of Harrow. It was the headquarters of Fighter Command...

the RAF Fighter Command order of battle at 15 September 1940, during the Battle of Britain. RAF Fighter Command Headquarters was located at RAF Bentley...

single-seat fighter aircraft RAF Dyce No. 111 Squadron RAF (FIt) operated with Hawker Hurricane single-seat fighter aircraft RAF Elgin No. 232 Squadron RAF operated...

transferred to No. 11 Group, RAF Fighter Command . During the Second World War, RAF squadrons at Bentwaters were: No. 64 Squadron RAF between 29 December 1944...

when it became the RAF (Cadet) College. The group was reformed on 1 April 1937 in Fighter Command at RAF Uxbridge as No. 12 (Fighter) Group. It was the...

Leigh-Mallory replaced Park at No. 11 (Fighter) Group and Sholto Douglas replaced Dowding as head of RAF Fighter Command. In 1942, Leigh-Mallory became Commander-in-Chief...

B Cole-Hamilton Nov 1944 Unknown List of Royal Air Force groups RAF Fighter Command Battle of Britain List of Battle of Britain airfields List of Battle...

serving in the RAF Eagle squadrons were transferred into the American ranks, with 71, 121 and 133 RAF Eagle Squadrons becoming the 4th Fighter Group. The...

205 Squadron RAF Fighter Command Instrument Rating Flight RAF (1956–60) became Fighter Command Instrument Rating Squadron RAF Fighter Command Instrument...

air superiority over the RAF, with the aim of incapacitating RAF Fighter Command; 12 days later, it shifted the attacks to RAF airfields and infrastructure...

Britain, the defence of the UK's airspace was divided up within RAF Fighter Command into four Groups, each comprising several airfields and squadrons...

his ambitions of becoming a fighter pilot. Johnson had been interested in aviation since his youth and applied to join the RAF. He was initially rejected...

provisionally in May 1941, prior to completion of the works, as a RAF Fighter Command base where the primary weapon was the Supermarine Spitfire, and officially...

south of Linney Head. The airfield opened as a RAF Fighter Command forward airfield, within No. 10 Group RAF as part of the Fairwood Common Sector. During...

Martlesham then became the most northerly station of No. 11 Group RAF, Fighter Command. Squadrons of Bristol Blenheim bombers, Hawker Hurricanes, Supermarine...

as the RAF turned from defence to attack, Group Captain Douglas Bader, the legless fighter ace, commanded the Tangmere wing of Fighter Command. Today...

the RAF operated the Fighter Command Communication Squadron RAF on the base. In October 1962, the USAF departed from Bovingdon. During the 60s, RAF Transport...