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RAF 5: Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris GCB DSO OBE and His Tribute to the Polish and Czech Squadrons

A Hawker Hurricane awaits the “scramble”. We get an idea of the kit worn when flying and fighting for one’s life. Image is believed to be of a hurricane Squadron during the Battle of Britain 10 Jul-30 August 1940 ‘somewhere in Britain’, its source possibly being IWM. As soon as the correct sourse and data is located, this will be updated and credited.

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RAF 13: THE HALIFAX SQUADRONS

This IWM photograph is captioned CH 10593. Low-level 'beat-up'. A Halifax II JB911/KN-X of No 77 Squadron roars low over an audience of appreciative 'erks' during air tests at Elvington Yorkshire July 1943.

With thanks to IWM for this wonderful insight into our ground and aircrews. KTW

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RAF 14: The W R Chorley War Records (revised book review)

Part of the Crew of PB402 LQ-M

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RAF 30: A Shaky Do ~ The Plzen Raid 16-17 April 1943 by P W Cunliffe ~ Revised Book Review

The author Peter Wilson Cunliffe presenting a copy of the First Edition of A Shaky Do to the Royal Air Force at the book’s launch.

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RAF 31: RAF BOMBER CREWMAN by Jonathan Falconer ~ Book Review (Revised)

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RFC 1: The Royal Flying Corps ~ An Introduction

I’d enjoyed reading the Biggles stories as a boy in the early 1960s when they came out each Saturday in picture format; and very soon I moved on to the Second World War. Very quickly, the predecessor to the Royal Air Force faded into memory.

Finding this title on a visit to Winchcombe in March 2023 well, what a find! Why so?

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Art and the Futility of War

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RAF 8: Colonel Richard "Eager" Ernest Evans USAF

Captain Richard Ernest Evans USAAF 1942

By kind permission of Cpt Evans’s daughter, Mrs Barbara Evans Kinnear, her father’s co-author.

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RAF 9: RAF Fighter Command 1940

St Paul’s Cathedral, the Nation’s Capital, London 1940.

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RAF 3: RAF The King’s Cypher

The King’s Cypher

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RAF 2: Chief of the Air Staff formally signs King's Regulations into effect

King’s Regulations formally signed into effect by the Chief of the Air Staff (Head of the Royal Air Force), Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Wigston KCB CBE ADC