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    Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh William Lumsden Saunders, GCB, KBE, MC, DFC & Bar, MM (24 August 1894 – 8 May 1987) was a South African aviator who rose through...
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  • Hugh Saunders may refer to: Hugh Saunders (RAF officer) (1894–1987), South African aviator and Royal Air Force officer Hugh Saunders (academic) (died 1537)...
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  • ornithologist Hugh Saunders (disambiguation): Hugh Saunders (RAF officer) (1894–1987), South African aviator and Royal Air Force officer Hugh Saunders (academic)...
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    Trafford Leigh-Mallory (category Lancashire Fusiliers officers)
    Flying School and station commander at RAF Digby before serving as a staff officer overseas. He was posted to the RAF in Iraq in Christmas 1935, and, having...
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    BBC sketch comedy series French and Saunders (1987–2007) with her best friend and comedy partner Jennifer Saunders, and playing the lead role of Geraldine...
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    HQ RAF Bengal and Burma was renamed HQ RAF Burma on 27 February 1945. Renamed Air Headquarters Burma on 1 June 1945. Air Marshal Sir Hugh Saunders became...
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  • Vice-Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory 28 November 1942 Air Vice-Marshal Hugh Saunders 1 November 1944 Air Vice-Marshal John Cole-Hamilton 20 July 1945 Air...
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    Saunders 2007, p. 78. Saunders 2007, p. 118. Saunders 2007, p. 102. Jackson 1983, pp. 102–103. Saunders 2007, p. 88. Saunders 2007, p. 89. Saunders 2007...
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  • 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...
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    was a command of the Royal Air Force (RAF) that was active during the Second World War. It had been preceded by RAF Middle East, which was established in...
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    and Southern Rhodesia. He commanded No. 2 Group RAF of RAF Bomber Command and No. 15 Group RAF of RAF Coastal Command. Robb became Deputy Chief of Combined...
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    Authority - A History of RAF Organisation. Archived from the original on 15 April 2007. Craven & Cate 1983. Richards & Saunders 1975, p. 291. "Groups 200+_P"...
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    Mick Mannock (category Royal Air Force officers)
    & Saunders 2008, pp. 89–93. Franks & Saunders 2008, p. 94. Franks & Saunders 2008, pp. 179–180. Franks & Saunders 2008, p. 116. Franks & Saunders 2008...
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    Norman Bottomley (category East Yorkshire Regiment officers)
    command of No. 4 (AC) Squadron RAF from 1928 and No. 1 (Indian) Group from 1934. Bottomley was Senior Air Staff Officer at Bomber Command headquarters...
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    1969, pp. 239–240. Warner 2005, p. 258. RAF Station Commanders – South East England Saunders 2013, p. 211. Saunders 2013, p. 212. Mason 1969, p. 240. Dierich...
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    shared air victories. Commissioned as pilot officer in April 1940, he transferred to No. 3 Squadron RAF and participated in the Battle of France. In...
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  • No. 23 Group RAF was reformed as No 23 (Training) Group in Inland Area on 12 Apr 1926, at RAF Spitalgate, by re-numbering No. 3 Group RAF. Its stations...
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    Percy Charles Pickard (category Royal Air Force officers)
    1944) was an officer in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He served as a pilot and commander, and was the first officer of the RAF to be awarded...
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    Bomber) Group was a long-range, heavy bomber group of the Royal Air Force (RAF) established on 23 October 1941 by boosting No. 257 Wing to Group status...
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    Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. It was established on 28 December 1941 by renaming RAF Mediterranean under Air Vice Marshal Hugh Lloyd. Lloyd...
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  • four-star officer rank and currently the highest rank to which RAF officers may be promoted to in a professional capacity. Throughout the history of the RAF there...
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    one air force [United States Army Air Force (USAAF) or Royal Air Force (RAF)] and their deputies from the other air force, Eaker's Deputy Air Commander-in-Chief...
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    called to meetings with Air Chief Marshal Trafford Leigh Mallory and AOC Hugh Saunders to discuss the future of the Typhoon. Beamont argued that he had faith...
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    Group Captain Hugh Wilson, the pilot mainly responsible for test flying captured enemy aircraft, was asked to fly 313 from RAF Pembrey to RAF Farnborough...
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  • January 1930 and its first officer commanding, Group Captain Henry Cave-Browne-Cave, was double-hatted as Officer Commanding RAF Singapore. This was upgraded...
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  • Polanski Christian Serritiello as Ryszard Polanski Paul James Saunders as Eugene Gatowski Raf Menton as Nazi Soldier Elena Talon as Mia Farrow Charles Power...
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  • Service to form the Royal Air Force, and his unit became No. 70 Squadron RAF. He gained three more victories by the end of the month, and on 7 May he...
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    Royal Air Force Tangmere or more simply RAF Tangmere is a former Royal Air Force station located in Tangmere, England, famous for its role in the Battle...
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    Nelson & Saunders, 1985 ISBN 0-947750-02-9 Schrader, Helena. Sisters in Arms. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Aviation, 2006. ISBN 9781473845633 Bergel, Hugh. Fly and...
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    British RAF and the American USAAF in particular, the commands listed above and their various sub-commands were intended to have a commanding officer from...
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