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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.
Colonel Richard "Eager" Ernest Evans USAF ~ First Edition
Review of Richard Eager A Pilot’s Story by Colonel Richard Ernest Evans USAF and Mrs Barbara Evans Kinnear ~ First Edition
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.
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
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.
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
RAF 1: The King's Colour Squadron Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force Standards of the Queen’s Colour Squadron and the King’s Colour Squadron
RAF 6.1: (English Version) Lachen Speyerdorf ~ The Memorial Ceremony
Herr Erik Wieman, Principal Archaeologist IGHF at the crash site of Halifax DK165 MP-E
RAF 6-2: (Deutsche Version) Lachen Speyerdorf ~ Die Gedenkstein Zeremonie
The main part of the fuselage of Halifax DK165 MP-E rests on its side, the tail section lying in another part of the forest.
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