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[DOC File]Battle of Britain
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The RAF was successful in keeping the majority of German bombers and fighters away, shooting down 150 aircraft. However, they lost 100 precious fighters and 80 irreplaceable pilots. By 18 June, all British forces had withdrawn from France. Both the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) and the RAF had lost many aircraft and trained crews during this ...
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[DOC File]Propaganda In War - Stanford University
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A major campaign of World War II, the Battle of Britain is the name for the attempt by Germany’s Luftwaffe to gain control of British airspace and destroy the Royal Air Force (RAF). Secondary objectives were to destroy aircraft production and intimidate the nation into neutrality or surrender.
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[DOCX File]How well prepared was Britain for war in 1939
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This enabled relatively fast deployment of forces (The Wehrmacht were not entirely motorised at this stage). British artillery pieces were of high quality, a British 25 pound artillery piece was particularly accurate and successful in destroying enemy tanks, for example.
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[DOC File]BRITAIN, THE 51ST STATE
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(As Johnson relates, the standard joke in the airman ranks went: “A regular RAF officer was an officer trying to be a gentleman; an Auxiliary was a gentleman trying to be an officer, and a Volunteer Reserve was neither, trying to be both”) ... the reason the British air force so desperately needed men that it would accept American ...
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[DOC File]RGS Infonet
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RAF Officer: Squadron Leader N Jones RAFVRT. RAF Officer: Flying Officer R Robinson RAFVRT Senior Army Cadet: Senior RAF Cadet: Senior Navy Cadet: Key Info: You can contact the SSI for any information on: ske@reigategrammar.org. The CCF Offices are at the top of Cornwallis, the CO and the SSI have offices there.
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[DOC File]A beginners guide to the Air Transport Auxiliary (A
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As the RAF became more desperate for manpower the job of ferrying aircraft from factory to frontline was handed over to the A.T.A. to free up RAF personnel for other jobs. ... This was the only British organisation that permitted women to fly during WW2. ... And the following are the ranks of the A.T.A. when the organisation was closed down ...
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[DOC File]Battle of Britain
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To oppose these forces, the British Royal Air Force (RAF) could muster no more than about 600 Hurricane and Spitfire fighters. Outnumbered as they were, these were excellent planes, and they were manned by superbly trained, highly skilled, and extraordinarily motivated pilots under the command of the venerable air chief marshall Hugh Dowding.
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[DOCX File]www.rafmuseum.org.uk
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The Royal Air Force Museum was opened in 1972, some 41 years after the RAF had first looked to set up its own museum, and 54 years after the RAF was formed. ... The Air Force List gives details of officers – which suggests that he thought the other ranks perhaps need not be represented. TNA AIR 2/10181, Enclosures15 and 42, 22 March and 30 ...
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Lance Wade: World War II RAF Ace Fighter Pilot
British Squadron Leader Lance C. Wade, leading a group of eight Supermarine Spitfire Mark VIIIs, was not expecting to encounter enemy aircraft as his Royal Air Force patrol neared the Italian coast near Termoli on October 3, 1943. Suddenly the RAF fliers sighted Focke Wulf Fw-190As at 12,000 feet.
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[DOC File]Andy's Website for NIC Students - Andy's Website Home
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24-year-old RAF fighter pilot Frank Whittle first patented a new kind of aircraft - the turbojet - in 1930, but his new design was so radical that the military wouldn’t fund it, nor would any manufacturers, until in 1937 he found a few private backers and in 1941 a 17-minute test flight took place at RAF …
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