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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Douglas Bader (section Joining the RAF)
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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Adlertag (section RAF operational command)
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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Frank Reginald Carey (redirect from Frank Carey (RAF officer))
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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Roland Beamont (section RAF career)
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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Far East Air Force (Royal Air Force) (redirect from RAF Air Command Far East)
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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